1st Edition

Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space

Edited By Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, Elias Dinas Copyright 2014
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make decisions based on their positions in the various dimensions this space consists of. The authors of this volume address the questions surrounding the dimensions of Spanish politics, the effect of the nationalist issue (Catalonia and the Basque Country)... Read more

1. Introduction: Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space  2. Spatial Voting in Spain  3. Party Polarisation and Spatial Voting in Spain  4. How Do Spanish Independents Vote? Ideology vs. Performance  5. The Lack of Partisan Conflict over the Welfare State in Spain  6. Party Competition and Preferences for Inter-regional Redistribution in Spain  7. Left and Right in the Basque Country and Catalonia: The Meaning of Ideology in a Nationalist Context  8. Preferences for Political Coalitions in Spain  9. The Electoral Effect of Immigration Preferences and the Centre – Periphery Cleavage in Spain  10. Projection Bias in the Survey Placement of Spanish Political Parties: Differences between National and Regional Parties

Biography

Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca is Research Director and Professor of Political Science at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain.

Elias Dinas is Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, School of Politics and IR, UK.