Dandoy / Schakel Regional and National Elections in Western Europe

Territoriality of the Vote in Thirteen Countries
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-02544-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 329 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Comparative Territorial Politics

Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result of rigorous and in-depth country studies, this book challenges the popular second-order model and presents an innovative framework to study regional voting patterns.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dandoy, R.

Schakel, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Territoriality of the Vote. A Framework for Analysis; Arjan H. Schakel and Régis Dandoy 2. Austria: Regional Elections in the Shadow of National Politics; Marcelo Jenny 3. Belgium: Towards a Regionalization of National Elections?; Régis Dandoy 4. Denmark: The First Years of Regional Voting after Comprehensive Reform; Yosef Bhatti and Sune Welling Hansen 5. France: Regional Elections as 'third-order' Elections?; Fabien Escalona, Simon Labouret and Mathieu Vieira 6. Germany: The Anatomy of Multi-level Voting; Charlie Jeffery and Alia Middleton 7. Greece: Five Typical Second-order Elections Despite Significant Electoral Reform; Stavros Skrinis 8. Italy: Between Growing Incongruence and Region-specific Dynamics; Emanuele Massetti and Giulia Sandri 9. The Netherlands: Two Forms of Nationalization of Provincial Elections; Arjan H. Schakel 10. Norway: No Big Deal with Regional Elections?; Lawrence E. Rose and Tore Hansen 11. Spain: The Persistence of Territorial Cleavages and Centralism of the Popular Party; Braulio Gómez Fortes and Laura Cabeza Perez 12. Sweden: From Mid-term County Council Elections to Concurrent Elections; Linda Berg and Henrik Oscarsson 13. Switzerland: Moving Towards a Nationalized Party System; Daniel Bochsler and Fabio Wasserfallen 14. The United Kingdom: Multi-level Elections in an Asymmetrical State; Nicola McEwen 15. Conclusion: Regional Elections in Comparative Perspective; Arjan H. Schakel and Régis Dandoy Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Berg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Yosef Bhatti, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Daniel Bochsler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Laura Cabeza Perez, Spanish National Research Council
Fabien Escalona
Braulio Gómez Fortes, Institute of Governance
Tore Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway

Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marcelo Jenny, University of Vienna, Austria
Simon Labouret, Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble
Emanuele Massetti, University of Sussex, UK
Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh, UK
Alia Middleton, University of Edinburgh, UK
Henrik E. Oscarsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Lawrence E. Rose, University of Oslo, Norway
Giulia Sandri, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Stavros Skrinis, Panteion University Athens, Greece

Mathieu Vieira, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fabio Wasserfallen, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Sune Welling Hansen, Danish Institute of Governmental Research