No green country for centralist parties?: how parties’ territorial positions influence the salience of environmental issues
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2025-11-24
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Recent research suggests that parties’ positions on the territorial dimension may shape their environmental agendas, yet empirical evidence remains limited to a small number of cases. In this article we examine whether pro-periphery parties assign greater salience to environmental issues compared to centralist parties, drawing on a large dataset of electoral manifestos from Spain. The Spanish case, with its wide range of nationalist and regionalist parties across the ideological spectrum, offers an ideal setting for testing this hypothesis. Our findings show that left-wing parties consistently prioritize environmental issues regardless of their territorial stance. By contrast, among conservative parties, adopting a pro-periphery position strongly increases environmental salience. These results challenge the common view that ‘green nationalism’–the association of environmentalism with territorial demands–is confined to left-wing regionalist parties, and instead highlight a broader, ideology-dependent link between territorial politics and environmentalism.
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Climate policy
Green nationalism
Party competition
Party manifestos
Regional parties
Green nationalism
Party competition
Party manifestos
Regional parties
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Sallabera, P., Cabeza Pérez, L., & Gómez, B. (2025). No green country for centralist parties?: how parties’ territorial positions influence the salience of environmental issues. Regional and Federal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2589262