Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007

The analysis presented herein addresses the issue of social and religious diversity within the Catholic Church and its influence on voter turnout and Sejm election results in Poland. The paper covers election results from 2001 to 2007. Both organizational-institutional characteristics and social-rel...

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Main Authors: Bilska-Wodecka Elżbieta, Matykowski Roman
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Language:English
Published: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 2015-12-01
Series:Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2015-0031
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description The analysis presented herein addresses the issue of social and religious diversity within the Catholic Church and its influence on voter turnout and Sejm election results in Poland. The paper covers election results from 2001 to 2007. Both organizational-institutional characteristics and social-religious characteristics of the Church have been taken into account when assessing the impact of the Church on regional differences in political support for selected political factions in 2005. The impact of each factor on the support level for a given party or political orientation in a regional (spatial) context was assessed on the basis of the degree of coincidence of the factors of interest, measured using the coefficient of correlation.
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spelling doaj-art-5e4952c2953d42e3aa5aa507ec2510f42025-08-20T03:56:17ZengNicolaus Copernicus University in ToruńBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series2083-82982015-12-01303072210.1515/bog-2015-0031bog-2015-0031Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007Bilska-Wodecka Elżbieta0Matykowski Roman1Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków; phone: +48 126 645 286Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań; phone: +48 618 296 170The analysis presented herein addresses the issue of social and religious diversity within the Catholic Church and its influence on voter turnout and Sejm election results in Poland. The paper covers election results from 2001 to 2007. Both organizational-institutional characteristics and social-religious characteristics of the Church have been taken into account when assessing the impact of the Church on regional differences in political support for selected political factions in 2005. The impact of each factor on the support level for a given party or political orientation in a regional (spatial) context was assessed on the basis of the degree of coincidence of the factors of interest, measured using the coefficient of correlation.https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2015-0031polandsejm electionssocial factorsreligious factorsprincipal component analysis
spellingShingle Bilska-Wodecka Elżbieta
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Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
poland
sejm elections
social factors
religious factors
principal component analysis
title Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
title_full Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
title_fullStr Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
title_full_unstemmed Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
title_short Influence of social and religious factors in Polish Sejm elections, 2001–2007
title_sort influence of social and religious factors in polish sejm elections 2001 2007
topic poland
sejm elections
social factors
religious factors
principal component analysis
url https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2015-0031
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