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The electoral systems represent a very important element of the entire political process which connects the people`s choices to the types of politics promoted by the governments. They are chosen and sometimes modified by political actors and, once functional, exercise political consequences over these actors. A state`s politics is profoundly influenced by its electoral system. In the last decades, more and more states have opted to modify, either partially or entirely their electoral systems, the main reason being...

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the voting behaviour of the Bulgarians and Romanians in the European elections, in order to identify the similarities and the differences regarding the results, the rate of the electoral participation and the interest for these elections. To that effect, we stress out the disparities between the declared enthusiasm of the population concerning the European elections (and their countries' integration in the European Union in general) and the discouraging voter turnout, at t...