Descentralización y voto económico en España

  1. Lago Peñas, Ignacio
  2. Lago Peñas, Santiago
Revista:
REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas

ISSN: 0210-5233

Ano de publicación: 2011

Número: 136

Páxinas: 111-126

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5477/CIS/REIS.136.111 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

This paper analyzes economic voting in decentralized contexts. The existence of several arenas of political competition allows for the appearance of vertical electoral contamination processes, implying that voters do not evaluate the performance of national and regional governments independently. Using the case of Spain in the period 1982-2008, it is demonstrated that this electoral contamination spreads from the national arena to the regional one, and not the other way round. However, electoral contamination tends to diminish as the process of decentralization takes place over time.

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