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2. La nacionalización electoral de los partidos políticos en España.
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Cosano, Pablo Simón
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POLITICAL parties , *ELECTIONS , *GOVERNMENT ownership , *POLITICAL philosophy , *IDEOLOGY , *REGIONAL differences ,SPANISH politics & government, 1975-2014 - Abstract
This study is focused on the nationalization of political parties in Spain understood as the homogeneity of parties' electoral support across constituencies in a national election. The first part of the paper describes the evolution of nationalization from 1977 to the present and shows how the Spanish party system is increasingly nationalized despite the differences across parties. The second part seeks to explain party nationalization determinants. The analysis indicates that the votes received at national level increases party nationalization. The age of the party enhances national parties' nationalization while in subnational parties this variable has a negative effect, pointing to a trade-off between the two groups. Finally, the ideological distance in the left-right axis reduces national parties' homogeneity across districts while founding elections have no effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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3. Negativismo mediático y campaña electoral en las Elecciones Generales de 2008.
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Castromil, Antón R.
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MASS media , *ELECTIONS , *SPANISH newspapers , *PARTISANSHIP , *POLARIZATION (Social sciences) , *TERRORISM in the press ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
This paper aims to understand the behavior of Spain's main media within a specific electoral context: the 2008 General Election. To this end, we analyzed the coverage of the major Spanish newspapers (El País, El Mundo and Abc) in order to determine whether their agenda setting and framing had political motives, in addition to the merely informative intention. Spanish media had at least two options within the context of the elections: to offer their readers a neutral coverage or, on the contrary, to taint it with obvious partisanship. Our findings demonstrate the predominance of the latter option. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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4. Descentralización y voto económico en España.
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Lago Peñas, Ignacio and Lago Peñas, Santiago
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ELECTIONS , *ECONOMIC voting , *DECENTRALIZATION in government , *VOTING research , *VOTING , *POLITICAL competition , *LOCAL government , *FEDERAL government ,SPANISH politics & government, 1975-2014 - Abstract
This paper analyzes economic voting in decentralized contexts. The existence of several arenas of political competition allows for the appearance of vertical electoral contamination processes, implying that voters do not evaluate the performance of national and regional governments independently. Using the case of Spain in the period 1982-2008, it is demonstrated that this electoral contamination spreads from the national arena to the regional one, and not the other way round. However, electoral contamination tends to diminish as the process of decentralization takes place over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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5. Participación y resultados electorales en España.
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Lago, Ignacio and Ramón Montero, José
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VOTER turnout , *POLITICAL participation , *ELECTIONS , *VOTING research , *POLITICAL parties - Abstract
This paper critically reviews the conventional wisdom on the positive relationship between turnout and the electoral results of the PSOE in general elections in Spain. We highlight the existence of three causal mechanisms that give rise to different predictions about this correlation and therefore undermine the existing parsimonious thesis. Some of our arguments are empirically tested with aggregate district-level data corresponding to the ten general elections held to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
6. Una estimación del voto estratégico de Izquierda Unida al Partido Socialista en las elecciones generales del período 2000-2008.
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García Viñuela, Enrique and Artés, Joaquín
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VOTING research , *ELECTIONS , *SIMULATION methods & models ,SPANISH politics & government, 1975-2014 - Abstract
In this paper we use the method of counterfactual simulation to estimate the number of strategic votes transferred from the United Left (IU) to the Socialist Party (PSOE) in the last three Spanish general elections. The strategic voters we refer to are those who, in spite of IU being their first political preference, voted for the PSOE in order to attain representation benefits. The counterfactual simulation procedure is used to examine how the predicted individual probability of voting for a party changes when the strategic incentives at constituency level are removed. Our results lend support to the hypothesis that IU's electoral and parliamentary collapse was due in no small measure to the strategic behavior of its followers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
7. El sesgo de participación en el sistema electoral español.
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Rodon i. Casarramona, Toni
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ELECTIONS , *VOTER turnout , *ELECTORAL geography , *PRACTICAL politics , *ELECTION districts , *GERRYMANDERING , *ELITE (Social sciences) - Abstract
The manipulation of the Spanish electoral system carried out by the political elites that led the political transition has been proved by several studies. This manipulation moves through the existence of a large number of low-magnitude districts and its interaction with malapportionment, the Hondt formula and, above all, the variance effect of district magnitudes. In this paper I will discuss another bias that has not yet been studied by researchers, and which also paved the way for UCD victories: the turnout bias. I will show how the manipulation of the electoral system led UCD to win systematically in the districts where there was low turnout and how its opponents won in districts with high turnout. Therefore the "price" of the seats for UCD was lower. This bias has remained and it favours those parties that have support in the districts with low turnout which are, at the same time, more overrepresented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
8. ¿Gestión o representación? Los determinantes del voto en contextos políticos complejos.
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Aguilar, Paloma and Sánchez-Cuenca, Ignacio
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SPANISH autonomous communities , *NATIONAL character , *SPATIAL analysis (Statistics) , *DECENTRALIZATION in government , *NATIONALISM , *VOTERS , *VOTING research , *POLITICAL campaigns , *ELECTIONS , *ADMINISTRATIVE & political divisions - Abstract
This paper analyses the way in which voting decision combines factors regarding government performance and the representative nature of the rulers. We have selected four Spanish regions with different degrees of nationalism and different parties at autonomous regional and central government levels. Voters make decisions in a two-dimensional space (ideology and nationalism). We calculate the relative importance of each dimension and show that ideology affects all voters equally, whereas the nationalist dimension only affects nationalists. Using conditional logit estimation techniques, we analyse a 1992 survey of carried out by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, which shows us that (i) there is a coat-tail voting effect, so that the party in power is rewarded or punished at autonomous regional level, (ii) nationalist voters are more indulgent than non nationalist voters when they have a negative opinion of the regional government performance, and (iii) the more exclusionist the nationalism, the stronger this effect will be. We consider that these effects are due to the fact that nationalists vote on the basis of representation rather than government performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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9. El voto estratégico en las elecciones autonômicas andaluzas de 1996.
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Peñas, Ignacio Lago
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VOTING , *ELECTIONS , *POLITICAL parties , *REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
One of the shortcomings of the literature on strategic voting is the absence of empirical evidence in proportional representation electoral systems (PR systems). In this paper the existence of strategic voting in the 1996 regional elections in Andalusia is demonstrated using a pooled cross- section regression model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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10. Tamaño del distrito y voto estratégico en España.
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Moreno, Cristina and Oñate, Pablo
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ELECTIONS , *VOTING registers , *VOTING , *POLITICAL participation , *DECISION making - Abstract
This paper analyses the psychological effects of the electoral system, paying attention to the influence that the size or magnitude of the electoral district has on the strategic use of the vote in the Spanish Congreso de los Diputados elections. In order to measure the incidence of the strategic vote on the behaviour of Spanish voters between 1982 and 2000, the various approaches proposed for studying this phenomenon are applied. The results make it possible to confirm that the institutional variable forming the electoral system - the size or dimension of the district, in other words the difference between large and small districts - has an influence on the behaviour of voters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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