Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD

Income inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territo...

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Autores: Kyriacou, Andreas P., Morral, Noemí
Tipo de recurso: artículo
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Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Eleccions -- Europa
Elections -- Europe
Desigualtats econòmiques regionals
Regional economic disparities
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spelling Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECDKyriacou, Andreas P.Morral, NoemíEleccions -- EuropaElections -- EuropeDesigualtats econòmiques regionalsRegional economic disparitiesIncome inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territorial redistribution is decided at the national level. Thus, regional inequalities will favor the electoral success of regional parties in national-level elections. In this article we report evidence consistent with this argument based on an original data set that captures the electoral fate of regional parties in national contests across twenty-two OECD countries. Our results are robust to the use of different estimation methods as well as the consideration of the confounding influence of other factors which may affect the electoral fortunes of regional partiesA.P.K. would like to acknowledge financial support from projects ECO2010-21668-C03-02 and ECO2012-31081 (Ministerio de Educacio´n y Ciencia) as well as 2009SGR-2013 and XREPP (Direccio´ General de Recerca)Oxford University PressMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (Espanya)infoinfo2015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/12044http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12044© Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2015, vol. 45, núm. 1, p. 3-23Articles publicats (D-EC)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/publius/pju007info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0048-5950info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//ECO2010-21668-C03-02Tots els drets reservatsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessoai:recercat.cat:10256/120442026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
spellingShingle Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
Kyriacou, Andreas P.
Eleccions -- Europa
Elections -- Europe
Desigualtats econòmiques regionals
Regional economic disparities
title_short Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
title_full Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
title_fullStr Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
title_full_unstemmed Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
title_sort Regional inequalities and the electoral success of regional parties: Evidence from the OECD
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kyriacou, Andreas P.
Morral, Noemí
author Kyriacou, Andreas P.
author_facet Kyriacou, Andreas P.
Morral, Noemí
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Espanya)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Eleccions -- Europa
Elections -- Europe
Desigualtats econòmiques regionals
Regional economic disparities
topic Eleccions -- Europa
Elections -- Europe
Desigualtats econòmiques regionals
Regional economic disparities
description Income inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territorial redistribution is decided at the national level. Thus, regional inequalities will favor the electoral success of regional parties in national-level elections. In this article we report evidence consistent with this argument based on an original data set that captures the electoral fate of regional parties in national contests across twenty-two OECD countries. Our results are robust to the use of different estimation methods as well as the consideration of the confounding influence of other factors which may affect the electoral fortunes of regional parties
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