Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: evidence from Spain and Great Britain
| dc.contributor.author | Alonso Sáenz de Oger, Sonia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cabeza Pérez, Laura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gómez Fortes, Braulio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-25T07:42:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-25T07:42:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-11 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-11-25T07:42:54Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article has two objectives. Firstly, we test the theoretical assumptions about the repertoire of party strategies in a two-dimensional political space presented in the introduction to this special issue. We use a new dataset that content-analyzes electoral parties’ manifestos for regional elections in Spain and Great Britain (the Regional Manifestos Project) in order to see how well the theoretically-derived strategies approximate what parties in regional elections really do. Secondly, we develop tentative explanations of parties’ strategies: Which parties are more likely to use what type of strategy and under what circumstances? After running a multinomial logistic model we find that, in contrast to the niche party thesis, regionalist parties strategize simultaneously along the territorial and the economic dimensions of competition, while state-wide parties react to the presence of regionalist opponents by incorporating the territorial dimension into the agenda. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The work reported in this article has been funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain) through the National Plan of Research, Development and Technological Innovation (PN I+D+i) under the project Regional Manifestos Project (CSO2012-34704). Laura Cabeza is supported by a stipend from the Research Training Group SOCLIFE, University of Cologne, Germany | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alonso, S., Cabeza, L., & Gómez, B. (2015). Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: Evidence from Spain and Great Britain. Party Politics, 21(6), 851-865. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068815597576 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1354068815597576 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1460-3683 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1354-0688 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2098 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd | |
| dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2015 | |
| dc.subject.other | Great Britain | |
| dc.subject.other | Regionalist parties | |
| dc.subject.other | Spain | |
| dc.subject.other | State-wide parties | |
| dc.subject.other | Territorial dimension | |
| dc.title | Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: evidence from Spain and Great Britain | en |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 865 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 6 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 851 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Party Politics | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 21 |