ABSTRACT
The dramatic break with Stalin necessitated the development of a distinctly Yugoslav model of communist development, one which would preserve the Marxian lineage of the new political system, yet distinguish it completely from the "statist socialism" of the Soviet type. Both the degree of patterning for turnout and its negative association with invalidation are further evidence that voting behavior in the Communist era can be used to make inferences about the state of political incorporation in the system. The chapter describes a search for the causes or correlates of the evolving pattern of regional invalidation levels, with particular attention to the expansion of invalidation during the experiment in pluralist socialism in the late 1960s. Despite the controversy over regime-strategy regarding the national question, the effort by the Yugoslav communist leadership to legitimate their unique model of non-totalitarian and anti-Soviet communism appeared to have met with considerable success.
