Papers and books on parties, elections and voting behavior in Eastern Europe by Gabor Toka

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Last updated on 25 June 2011.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, Marina Popescu and Gábor Tóka, 2009. “Towards a European Electorate. One Electorate or Many?” in The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, ed. by Jacques Thomassen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 66-93.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, and Gábor Tóka. 2008. “One Electorate or Many? Voting Behavior in New and Established Democracies in Europe.” Electoral Studies 27 (4): 589-600.

Popescu, Marina, and Gábor Tóka. 2008. "Districting and Redistricting in Eastern and Central Europe: Regulations and Practices." in Redistricting in Comparative Perspective, edited by Bernard Grofman and Lisa Handley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu. 2007. “Inequalities of Political Influence in New Democracies.” International Journal of Sociology 37 (4): 67-93.

Enyedi, Zsolt, and Gábor Tóka. 2007. "The Only Game in Town: Party Politics in Hungary." in Party Politics in New Democracies, edited by Paul Webb and Stephen White. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-178.

Tóka, Gábor, and Andrija Henjak. 2007. "Party Systems and Voting Behaviour in the Visegrad Countries 15 Years After the Transition.” in Visegrad Votes: Parliamentary Elections 2005-2006, ed. by Pavel Šaradín and Eva Bradová. Olomouc: Palacky University Press, pp. 210-244.

Tóka, Gábor, 2006. "Vezérek csodálói: a magyar választói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Leaders’ Admirers: Hungarian Voting Behavior in Cross-national Comparison)." in Parlamenti választás 2006: Elemzések és adatok (Parliamentary Elections 2006: Analyses and Data), edited by Gergely Karácsony. Budapest: DKMKA. (In Hungarian.)

“Values and the Legacy of Communism: Comparisons between Eastern and Western Mass Publics.” Paper presented at the 38th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 16-19 November 2006.

Tóka, Gábor. 2006. "Elections and Representation.” in Developments in European Politics, edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones, Martin Rhodes and Ulrich Sedelmeier. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 117-135.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, and Gábor Tóka. 2006. “Egységes vagy nemzetekre tagolt választóközönség? Szavazói magatartás Európa új és régebbi demokráciáiban.” in A 2004. évi európai parlamenti választások: Pártok és szavazói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban, edited by Gábor Tóka and Ágnes Bátory. Budapest: DKMKA, Századvég, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Politikatudományi Intézet, pp. 273-291. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2005. "A magyarországi politikai tagoltság nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Electoral Alignments in Hungary in a Cross-National Comparison)." in Törések, hálók, hidak: Választói magatartás és politikai tagolódás Magyarországon (Cleavages, Nets, and Bridges: Voting Behavior and the Political Process in Hungary), szerk. Angelusz Róbert és Tardos Róbert. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 17-64. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2005. "A törésvonalak, a pártok és az intézményrendszer (Cleavages, Parties, and Institutional Design)." in Törések, hálók, hidak: Választói magatartás és politikai tagolódás Magyarországon (Cleavages, Nets, and Bridges: Voting Behavior and the Political Process in Hungary), szerk. Angelusz Róbert és Tardos Róbert. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 243-322. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2004. "Hungary." in Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, 2nd revised and updated edition, ed. by Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, and Frank H. Aarebrot. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, pp. 289-336.

Popescu, Marina, and Gábor Tóka. “Campaign Effects in East Central Europe: Examples from Recent Elections.” Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association at Philadelphia, 27-31 August 2003.

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. "Pártimázsok Magyarországon, 1992-2002 (Party Images in Hungary, 1992-2002)." in Magyarország politikai évkönyve - Political Yearbook of Hungary 2003, ed. by Sándor Kurtán, Péter Sándor, and László Vass. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 1540-58. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. “Szavazói magatartás (Voting Behavior).” in Politika és politikatudomány (Politics and Political Science), ed. by Sándor Gallai and Gábor Török. Budapest: Aula, pp. 457-77. (In Hungarian.)

Popescu, Marina, and Gábor Tóka. 2002. "Campaign Effects and Media Monopoly: The 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary." in Do Political Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums, edited by David M. Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. London: Routledge, pp. 58-75.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu 2002. "Befolyásolja-e a szavazókat a Magyar Televízió kormánypárti propagandája? Egy empírikus kutatás 1994-98-ból (Does the Pro-Government Propaganda on the Hungarian Television Influence the Voters? An Empirical Study from 1994-98).” Médiakutató 6: 21-38. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. “Issue Voting and Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe.” in Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West. Studien zur politischen Kultur und zum politischen Prozess - Citizens and Democracy in East and West. Studies in Political Culture and the Political Process, ed. by Dieter Fuchs, Edeltraud Roller, and Bernhard Wessels. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 169-85.

Tóka, Gábor. “Negative Information and Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper prepared for presentation at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Turin, Italy, 22-27 March 2002.

Karácsony, Gergely, and Gábor Tóka. 2001. "The Electorate, 1990-1998." in Hungary: Government and Politics 1848-2000, ed. by Mária Ormos and Béla K. Király. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, pp. 495-518.

Tóka, Gábor 2000. Inventory of Political Attitude and Behaviour Surveys in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union 1989-97. Bergisch Gladbach: Edwin Ferger Verlag.  I believe this book is out of print but you can download the pdf file from here, or click here for an order form that you can send to the publisher.

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. "Politikai ismeretszint és választói magatartás: Magyarországon nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Political Knowledge and Voting Behaviour: Hungary in Cross-National Comparison)." in Társadalmi Riport 2000 (Social Report 2000), ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 573-90. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. "Electoral Research in Hungary." in Elections in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Ekkehard Mochmann, and Kenneth Newton. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 71-104.

[with Marina Popescu] "Campaign Effects in the 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary." Paper presented at the 28th Joint Sessions and Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-19 April 2000.

Kitschelt, Herbert, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski and Gábor Tóka 1999. Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Parties and Social Divisions: A Common East Central European Pattern?" in A Society Transformed? Hungary in Time-Space Perspective, ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, Richard Rose and György Vukovich. Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 155-78.

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások Magyarországon, 1990-98 (Election Polls in Hungary, 1990-98)." in Magyarország politikai évkönyve - Political Yearbook of Hungary 1999, ed. by Sándor Kurtán, László Sándor, and László Vass. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 706-27. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Voting Behavior." in Social Report 1998, ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 389-408. NB: Unfortunately, the copy editor seriously messed up party and country names in some tables, so I uploaded here a corrected copy of my chapter.

Tóka, Gábor, and Zsolt Enyedi eds. 1999. Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly 1994 (Vol. 6 of the Eastern European Election Handbook Series, general editors Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor). Berlin: Sigma.

"The Hierarchy of Issue Domains in Inter-Party Relations in East Central Europe with a Directional Model of Coalition Formation." Paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 3-6 September 1998.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Appeals and Voter Loyalty in New Democracies." in Parties and Democracy, ed. by Richard Hofferbert. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 167-88.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Positions." in Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence, ed. by Jan W. van Deth. London: Routledge, pp. 180-204.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Hungary." in Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, ed. by Sten Berglund, Tomas Hellén and Frank H. Aarebrot. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, pp. 231-74.

Renwick, Alan, and Gábor Tóka. 1998. "East Meets West." in International Social Attitudes: The 15th British Social Attitudes Report, ed. by Roger Jowell et al. Aldershot: Dartmouth, pp. 149-71.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások és előrejelzések 1998-ban (Election Polls and Forecasts in 1998)." Jel-Kép 1998 19 (4): 53-76. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Választói magatartás (Electoral Behaviour)." in Társadalmi Riport 1998 (Social Report 1998), ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 391-411. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Appeals and Voter Loyalty in New Democracies." Political Studies 46: 589-610.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "A pártpreferenciák stabilitásának meghatározói (Determinants of the Stability of Party Preferences)." Századvég, új folyam, 9: 3-26. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Társadalmi egyenlőség a választói viselkedésben (Social Equality in Electoral Behavior)." Politikatudományi Szemle 6 (2): 33-46. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Strany a volby ve stredni a vychodni Evrope (Parties and Elections in Central and Eastern Europe)." Sociologicky casopis 33 (1): 5-26. (In Czech.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Political Parties in East Central Europe." in Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives, ed. by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 93-134.

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in East Central Europe." Studies in Public Policy No. 279. Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.

Tóka, Gábor. "Electoral Studies in Hungary." Paper presented at the Third Berlin Conference on Elections and Democratic Consolidation: East European Research Networks, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany, 19-21 December 1997.

Tóka, Gábor, and Jaap Dronkers 1996. "Sibling Resemblance in Education Attainment, Occupation Prestige, and Wealth in Hungary during the Communist Regime." European Sociological Review 12 (December 1996): 251-70.

Tóka, Gábor. 1996. "Koalicní preference ve stredni a vychodní Evrope (Coalition Preferences in Eastern and Central Europe)." Politologická revue 2 (prosinec 1996), pp. 71-86. (In Czech.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1996. "Parties and Electoral Choices in East Central Europe." in Stabilising Fragile Democracies, ed. by Paul Lewis and Geoffrey Pridham. London: Routledge, pp. 100-25.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Parties and Elections in Hungary in 1990 and 1994." in Lawful Revolution in Hungary 1989-94, ed. by Béla K. Király and András Bozóki. Highland Lakes, NJ: Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc. and Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, pp. 131-58.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Being Represented - Being Satisfied? Political Support in East Central Europe." in Citizens and the State, ed. by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Dieter Fuchs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 354-82.

Markowski, Radoslaw, and Gábor Tóka. 1995. "Zwrot na lewo w Polsce i na Wegrzech piec lat po upkadu komunizmu (Shift to the Left in Poland and Hungary Five Years After the End of Communism)." in Wybory parlamentarne 1991 i 1993, pod redakcja Stanislawa Gebethnera. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, pp. 193-218. (In Polish.)

Markowski, Radoslaw, and Gábor Tóka. 1995. "Left Turn in Hungary and Poland Five Years After the Collapse of Communism." Sisyphus: Social Studies 1 (IX 1993): 75-100.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Seats and Votes: Consequences of the Hungarian Election Law." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 41-66.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "A Short History of the Hungarian Parties of the Transition." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 32-40.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Voting Behavior in 1990." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 84-123.

Tóka, Gábor ed. 1995. The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly (Vol. 1 of the Eastern European Election Handbook Series, general editors Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor). Berlin: Sigma.

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Pártok és választóik 1990-ben és 1994-ben (Parties and Voters in 1990 and 1994)." in Társadalmi Riport 1994 (Social Report 1994), ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 359-75. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Who Is Satisfied with Democracy?" in Democratic Legitimacy in Postcommunist Countries, ed. by András Bozóki. Budapest: T-Twins, pp. 231-55.

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Bal és jobb: Miért alkalmazható? (Left and Right: Why Can They Be Used?)" Politikatudományi Szemle 3 (3): 135-45. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1993. "Changing Dimensions of Party Competition: Hungary 1990-1991." in The Political Cultures of Eastern Central Europe in Transition, ed. by Gerd Meyer. Tübingen and Basel: Francke Verlag, pp. 165-228.

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "The Impact of the Religion Issue on Electoral Preferences in Hungary 1990-1991." in Wahlen in Zeiten des Umbruchs, ed. by Oscar W. Gabriel and Klaus G. Troitzsch. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 331-77.

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "A kelet-közép-európai pártrendszerek oldalnézetből (The East Central European Party Systems)." in Társadalmi Riport 1992, ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 359-75. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "A kakukk fészke. Pártrendszer és törésvonalak Magyarországon (The Cuckoo's Nest. Party System and Social Cleavages in Hungary)." Politikatudományi Szemle 1 (2): 123-59. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1991. "Választási eredmények elemzése (An Ecological Analysis of Election Results)." in Hol tart a szabad gondolat? (What Has the Idea of Freedom Achieved?), ed. by András Gyekiczki. Budapest: Politikai Tanulmányok Intézete, pp. 165-92. (In Hungarian.)

Kovács, Róbert, and Gábor Tóka. 1990. "Választási térkép (Electoral Geography)." Beszélő 23 March 1990, pp. 15-8. (In Hungarian.)

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