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  • According to numerous studies, economic variables are decisive factors in explaining vote choices - not only in established democracies, but also in post-communist democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. However, in contrast to established democracies, the explanatory power of the standard incumbency-hypothesis has been contested in the post-communist context. Instead, several context-specific hypotheses focusing on new regime and old regime parties have been formulated. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, I will argue that the role economic voting plays in explaining voting behaviour in post-communist democracies has been overestimated – due to omitted variable bias. In addition, it will be maintained that within the economic voting approach the standard incumbency hypothesis is more appropriate than the contextspecific hypotheses. In order to test the propositions, a general model of vote choices in post-communist democracies in Central and Eastern Europe integrating factors known from established democracies with factors being specific for the post-communist context will be formulated and tested. Using cross-sectional individual-level data for seven countries, (strong) empirical evidence is found for the theoretical expectations. (xsd:string)
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