How national parties nationalize regional elections: the case of Spain

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dc.contributor.authorCabeza Pérez, Laura
dc.contributor.authorGómez Fortes, Braulio
dc.contributor.authorAlonso Sáenz de Oger, Sonia
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-25T07:43:00Z
dc.date.available2024-11-25T07:43:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2024-11-25T07:43:00Z
dc.description.abstractThis article demonstrates that regional branches of national parties do not limit regional election campaigns to regional issues. On the contrary, they nationalize regional elections (i.e., emphasize national-level issues in regional campaigns) as an electoral strategy to win votes. The empirical evidence comes from the quantitative content analysis of regional-level manifestos of the two main national parties in Spain, PP, and PSOE, between 1998 and 2015. The percentage of references to the national government is taken as an indicator of nationalization. We find that parties nationalize regional elections under two situations: when the national co-partisans are in office enjoying high levels of popularity or when the national co-partisans are in opposition and the nationally governing party is unpopular. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of national parties in subordinating the regional arena to the national one in federal and decentralized states.en
dc.identifier.citationCabeza, L., Gómez, B., & Alonso, S. (2017). How national parties nationalize regional elections: The case of Spain. Publius, 47(1), 77-98. https://doi.org/10.1093/PUBLIUS/PJW030
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/PUBLIUS/PJW030
dc.identifier.eissn1747-7107
dc.identifier.issn0048-5950
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2101
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rights© The Author 2016
dc.titleHow national parties nationalize regional elections: the case of Spainen
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage98
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage77
oaire.citation.titlePublius
oaire.citation.volume47
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