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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Party dynamics and leadership longevity: experience from Western Balkans and Visegrad Group countries

2020, 2020, No. 4

Dejan Bursać

0000-0002-2998-3990

Institute for Political Studies (Belgrade, Serbia)

Boban Stojanović

0000-0002-7466-7292

University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.20.8

Publication date

14.12.2020

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

Discipline

international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English, Polish

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Abstract

This article is examining the effects of party dynamics on changeability of party leaders, arguing that significant differences can be expected with regard to ideology, parliamentary strength, and involvement in government. Authors claim that leaders are more prone to change, when their parties lose elections or depart from the government. Moreover, they explore variations in leadership longevity in relation to degree of democratic consolidation, based on the analysis of experience from the Western Balkans and Visegrad Group countries. Findings confirm the hypotheses regarding electoral failure and departure from government, as well as regional differences between transitional and more consolidated democracies.

Keywords:

leaders,leadership longevity,political parties,Visegrad Group,Western Balkans,transitional democracy,consolidated democracy

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