Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Region in 1998: Parties, Technologies and Results

  • Nataliya Alekseevna Kuznetsova Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod natkuznet@mail.ru
    Elibrary Author_id 359243
  • Natalya Vasil’evna Mokhova National Library of Russia naty.m.spb.ru@gmail.com
  • Olga Mikhailovna Orlinskaya Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod orlinskaya@mail.ru
How to Cite
Kuznetsova N.A., Mokhova N.V., Orlinskaya O.M. Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Region in 1998: Parties, Technologies and Results. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2020. Vol. 28. No. 2. P. 213-217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31171/vlast.v28i2.7159 (in Russ.).

Abstract

The article deals with the organization of the election campaign to the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in 1998 and reveals the role of political parties operating in the Nizhny Novgorod Region at that time and the peculiarities of using electoral technologies. The authors indicate the most important problems that the candidates who ran for office addressed to the voters, and determines the most significant aspects of the results of the elections to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Parliament in 1998. They reveal that charismatic politicians who distanced themselves from political parties were more successful in the struggle for votes than politicians who openly declared their party affiliation.
Keywords:
elections, Legislative Assembly, technologies, electoral pledge, parties

Author Biographies

Nataliya Alekseevna Kuznetsova, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Cand.Sci. (Pol.Sci.), Associate Professor of the Chair of Theory of Politics and Communication
Natalya Vasil’evna Mokhova, National Library of Russia
Librarian of the 1st category
Olga Mikhailovna Orlinskaya, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Cand.Sci. (Pol.Sci.), Associate Professor of the Chair of Theory of Politics and Communication

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Article

Received: 26.04.2020

Accepted: 27.04.2020

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Kuznetsova, N. A., Mokhova, N. V., & Orlinskaya, O. M. (2020). Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Region in 1998: Parties, Technologies and Results. Vlast’ (The Authority), 28(2), 213-217. https://doi.org/10.31171/vlast.v28i2.7159
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