Decentralization and the Nationalization of Party Systems

Ignacio Lago-Peñas and Santiago Lago-Peñas
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Ignacio Lago-Peñas: Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Santiago Lago-Peñas: Research in Economics, Business and the Environment, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, and University of Vigo, Campus Universitario, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Santiago Lago-Peñas

Environment and Planning C, 2011, vol. 29, issue 2, 244-263

Abstract: On the basis of a sample of 227 elections in seventeen Western European countries over the period 1945–98, we examine to what extent party systems are shaped by fiscal and political decentralization. With the exception of a few special cases, empirical evidence does not support the existence of a robust relationship between the degree of decentralization and the nationalization of party systems.

Date: 2011
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