Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
Most analysts agree that in the Basque Country, the nationalist cleavage is more important for party competition than the left-right divide. Recent studies, however, suggest that self-placement on the left-right scale is a more powerful predictor of electoral choices than self-placement along the Ba...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Repositorio: | e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/31516 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31516 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 5902 Ciencias políticas Basque Country elections left-right nationalism voting behavior País Vasco elecciones izquierda-derecha nacionalismo comportamiento electoral |
| Sumario: | Most analysts agree that in the Basque Country, the nationalist cleavage is more important for party competition than the left-right divide. Recent studies, however, suggest that self-placement on the left-right scale is a more powerful predictor of electoral choices than self-placement along the Basque-Spanish division. We work to solve this seeming paradox by showing that self-placement along the left-right axis is related to preferences on several issue dimensions, and is therefore not coincident with a classic understanding of “left” and “right”. Once operationalized as issue preferences, the Basque-Spanish divide appears to be more important for electoral decisions than the left-right one. |
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