Candidates for St. Petersburg Municipal Elections: Typology of Success

Authors

  • Никита Шалаев / Nikita Shalaev Saint Petersburg State University

Keywords:

municipal elections, factors of successful participation in elections, QCA, St. Petersburg

Abstract

The article researches into the results of qualitative-comparative analysis of the candidates for municipal elections in St. Petersburg during the last two electoral cycles (2009, 2014), using the data available through the online archive of the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation. The primary goal of the research is to work out the standard types of successful candidates. The research results show that the usually derived “portraits of successful candidates” can only be applied to candidates representing few major political parties. For representatives of less prominent parties, election success mostly appears to be a matter of chance. Moreover, the study revealed the lack of a stable recruiting mechanism for youthDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2015-3-149-166 

Author Biography

Никита Шалаев / Nikita Shalaev, Saint Petersburg State University

Postgraduate Student

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Published

2018-11-15

How to Cite

Nikita Shalaev Н. Ш. /. (2018). Candidates for St. Petersburg Municipal Elections: Typology of Success. Bulletin of Perm University. Political Science, (3), 149–166. Retrieved from http://press.psu.ru/index.php/polit/article/view/1923