June 10, 2023, 10:58 a.m.
Editor’s Note
Dear colleagues and friends,
The ninth (first in 2023) issue of our journal includes four papers and a virtual roundtable discussion supplied with concluding remarks.
Three papers examine the results of the 2021 State Duma election. The issue starts with a paper by Yurii Korgunyuk, where he applies electoral cleavage theory to the election, analyzing the structure of electoral cleavages on the federal and regional level based on the results.
Arkadii Lyubarev’s paper applies various statistical analysis methods to the recent State Duma election, while Konstantin Zhuribeda focuses on comparing the results of political parties and individual candidates is single-seat constituencies. While there is some confluence of the results in these two papers, their respective results are slightly different, since the first paper calculated party and candidate results based on the number of valid votes, and the second did so based on the number of voters who went to the polls.
Andrei Buzin’s paper delves into how the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin annulled the 2021 election results, analyzing the court decision as well as the violations that served as the grounds for annulling the elections.
The virtual roundtable discussion acts as a de-facto follow-up to Buzin’s paper (as well as the papers on challenging the results of the presidential election in the United States published in the previous issue). The lawyers, who took part in the discussion, tried to answer a number of theoretical questions, drawing on legal principles and Russian legal practice. The subject was further addressed in Arkadii Lyubarev’s concluding remarks.
I hope the new issue will further secure the journal’s status in academic circles and the pool of topics and authors will continue to grow.