The May polls are now all out (now that the firm MVK  has released its results) and we can look to see what changed in May.  The big news is that there is no real news.  The overall pattern remains largely the same with only minor changes from March (the last time I did the [...]

There is more polling analysis to come, but I want to post some more immediate evidence of the campaign: campaign billboard photos taken by Martin Votruba of the University of Pittsburgh and his brief commentary. Martin Votruba writes:Here are my renditions/explanations rather than regular translations: SF = A circle for # 80 (preferential voting?); [we] [...]

THE SUREST WAY TO KILL A BLOG, it is said, is to miss regular postings.  By that standard, I firmly planted this page in the grave when I left a month ago to shepherd students around Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Nevertheless, there is a month left before Slovakia’s election and there is a lot [...]

Before I begin, a note about file format.  Several readers have requested a “to go” version and so a full .pdf file containing this post is available here:  Download 3_24_06_slovak_election_update.pdf Second, a note about background.  For your information I have attached a briefing document prepared by Tim Haughton and myself during the summer of 2005.  [...]

Welcome.From now until June I hope to post regular (with luck, weekly) analyses of recent developments in Slovak public opinion as they pertain to the upcoming elections.  Notes and acknowledgements.  The analyses I post here would be impossible without the many insights into Slovak public opinion that I have gained from working with Vladimir Krivy, [...]