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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Autores: Leonisio Calvo, Rafael, Strijbis, Oliver
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
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elections
left-right
nationalism
voting behavior
País Vasco
elecciones
izquierda-derecha
nacionalismo
comportamiento electoral
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spelling Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque CountryMás allá de la autoubicación por qué el nacionalismo predice mejor el comportamiento electoral en el País VascoLeonisio Calvo, RafaelStrijbis, Oliver5902 Ciencias políticasBasque Countryelectionsleft-rightnationalismvoting behaviorPaís Vascoeleccionesizquierda-derechanacionalismocomportamiento electoralMost 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.La mayoría de analistas piensan que en el País Vasco el cleavage nacionalista es más importante que la división izquierda-derecha para la competición partidista. Sin embargo, estudios recientes han mostrado que la autoubicación en la escala izquierda-derecha predice mejor el comportamiento electoral que la autoubicación en una escala de nacionalismo. Tratamos de resolver esa aparente paradoja mostrando que la autoubicación en el eje izquierda-derecha tiene que ver con muchas dimensiones y por tanto no tiene por qué coincidir con la interpretación clásica de los términos “izquierda” y “derecha”. Una vez operacionalizadas las preferencias en determinados temas, la división nacionalismo vasco – españolismo se convierte en una factor más importante a la hora de decidir el voto que la división izquierda-derecha.Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS)e-Spacio UNED20262026-01-2220142014-04-0120142014-04-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31516reponame:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNEDinstname:Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.esoai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/315162026-06-06T12:38:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
Más allá de la autoubicación por qué el nacionalismo predice mejor el comportamiento electoral en el País Vasco
title Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
spellingShingle Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
Leonisio Calvo, Rafael
5902 Ciencias políticas
Basque Country
elections
left-right
nationalism
voting behavior
País Vasco
elecciones
izquierda-derecha
nacionalismo
comportamiento electoral
title_short Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
title_full Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
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title_sort Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Leonisio Calvo, Rafael
Strijbis, Oliver
author Leonisio Calvo, Rafael
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Strijbis, Oliver
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 5902 Ciencias políticas
Basque Country
elections
left-right
nationalism
voting behavior
País Vasco
elecciones
izquierda-derecha
nacionalismo
comportamiento electoral
topic 5902 Ciencias políticas
Basque Country
elections
left-right
nationalism
voting behavior
País Vasco
elecciones
izquierda-derecha
nacionalismo
comportamiento electoral
description 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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