Abstract Held on 6–7 October 2018, the Romanian referendum on the topic of gay marriage was the fourth referendum of this kind organised in East Central Europe over a five-year period. Because turnout was low in all of them and demands explanation, this paper: i) discusses the common characteristics of these Eastern European marriage referendums, contextualising the Romanian referendum; ii) overviews the history of the Romanian referendum, emphasising the legal, political, ideological and societal aspects; iii) quantitatively examines the electoral geography of the voting patterns; and iv) interprets qualitative data seeking to understand the voters’ choices and why conservative mobilisation was so weak.

中文翻译：

---

当文化实力意味着政治劣势时：罗马尼亚的全民公决和保守动员的悖论

摘要罗马尼亚关于同性婚姻的全民公决于2018年10月6日至7日举行，是五年来在中欧东部举行的第四次此类公投。由于所有投票率都很低，需要解释，因此，本文：i）讨论了这些东欧婚姻公投的共同特征，并结合了罗马尼亚公投；ii）概述罗马尼亚公投的历史，强调法律，政治，思想和社会方面；iii）定量检查投票方式的选举地理；iv）解释定性数据，试图了解选民的选择以及为什么保守动员如此薄弱。