Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space

There are two main conflicts in Spanish politics, the traditional left-right divide and the centre-periphery issue. This book examines how political competition is structured in Spain taking into account the positions that parties and citizens hold in the political space.
This book was published as a special issue of South European Soc

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

There are two main conflicts in Spanish politics, the traditional left-right divide and the centre-periphery issue. This book examines how political competition is structured in Spain taking into account the positions that parties and citizens hold in the political space. This book was published as a special issue of South European Soc

Product details

• Assisted by: Elias Dinas (Editor), Dinas Elias (Editor), Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032929156
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92915-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: South European Society and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Political structures: democracy, Politics and government, Elections & referenda, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage