Parliamentary elections and social emotions : quantitative survey from Europe 1900−2020

Nesiba, Jiří (author)

The paper presents the findings of a survey of parliamentary elections in Europe from 1900 to 2020, conducted in the chambers of deputies of European national states. The frequency of elections is examined in relation to the number of political parties elected to parliament, with an average correlation calculated for each year. The results demonstrate a correlation between these two phenomena. The correlation has been tested using the Pearson test. The presence of a greater number of parliamentary political parties and the occurrence of more frequent elections can be considered indicators of collective social emotions. The paper presents new perspectives of exploring the sociology of emotions or the politics of emotions. Furthermore, the author complements the research with a detailed statistical analysis of the period in which the correlation is most pronounced (1919−1990), which corresponds to the theory of the short twentieth century.

• Language: English
• Keywords: parliamentary elections, political parties, social emotions, collective emotions
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Geographic coverage: Evropa
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 21-33
• Numbering: Vol. 18, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179318
• UDC: 329(4)
• ISSN on article: 1338-1385
• COBISS.SI-ID: 267934979
• Publication date in RUL: 10.02.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of comparative politics
• Publisher: Department of Political Science, Center for Analysis of Administrative-Political Processes and Institutions, Alma Mater Europea-European Centre Maribor (AMEU-ECM)
• ISSN: 1338-1385
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29224285

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Parlamentarne volitve in družbena čustva

Abstract

Prispevek predstavlja izsledke raziskave o parlamentarnih volitvah v Evropi od leta 1900 do 2020, opravljene v nacionalnih parlamentih evropskih držav. Pogostost volitev se preverja glede na število političnih strank, izvoljenih v parlament, pri čemer se za vsako leto izračuna povprečna korelacija. Rezultati kažejo na povezavo med tema pojavoma. Korelacija je bila testirana s Pearsonovim testom. Prisotnost večjega števila parlamentarnih političnih strank in pogostejše volitve lahko štejemo za indikatorja kolektivnih družbenih čustev. Prispevek predstavlja nove perspektive raziskovanja sociologije čustev oziroma politike čustev. Nadalje avtor raziskavo dopolnjuje s podrobno statistično analizo obdobja, v katerem je korelacija najbolj izrazita (1919−1990), kar ustreza teoriji kratkega dvajsetega stoletja.

• Keywords: parlamentarne volitve, politične stranke, družbena čustva, kolektivna čustva