Papers on the impact of electoral cleavages on the political system by Gabor Toka

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Tóka, Gábor, and Tania Gosselin, forthcoming in 2010. “Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypotheses in the 2004 European Election.” West European Politics 33 (3).

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.

[with Tania Gosselin] “The Impact of Cleavages on Political Participation and Electoral Volatility.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 4-6 June 2008.

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.

“The Impact of Turnout on Election Outcomes in a Cross-national Perspective.” Paper presented at the panel on Comparative European Political Behavior at the 14th International Conference of Europeanists organized by the Council for European Studies in Chicago, IL, 11-13 March 2004.

“The Impact of Cross-Cutting Cleavages on Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association at Philadelphia, 27-31 August 2003.

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. 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. "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. 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.

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

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