BOOK REVIEW: Mihaela Ivănescu, „Alegeri și comportamente electorale în România. De la local la național”, București: Editura Universitară, 2015, 383 pp.

Luiza-Maria  FILIMON

Authors

Luiza-Maria FILIMON PhD in Political Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: luiza.filimon@gmail.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-0562

Abstract

On the eve of a new electoral cycle, Mihaela Ivănescu’s book, Alegeri și comportamente electorale în România. De la local la național (Eng. trans.: Elections and Electoral Behaviors in Romania. From the Local to the National Level) provides a much needed overview of how and why citizens vote a certain way. Understanding the complexities of the electoral behavior is one of those issues that falls not only under the purview of academic research avenues, but also of an entire cottage industry of (political) actors and party operatives whose success is dependent more or less on figuring exactly how to persuade potential voters to their side.

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