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Alonso, Sonia, Cabeza, Laura and Gomez, Braulio (2015). Parties' electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: Evidence from Spain and Great Britain. Party Polit., 21 (6). S. 851 - 866. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1460-3683

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Abstract

This article has two objectives. Firstly, we test the theoretical assumptions about the repertoire of party strategies in a two-dimensional political space presented in the introduction to this special issue. We use a new dataset that content-analyzes electoral parties' manifestos for regional elections in Spain and Great Britain (the Regional Manifestos Project) in order to see how well the theoretically-derived strategies approximate what parties in regional elections really do. Secondly, we develop tentative explanations of parties' strategies: Which parties are more likely to use what type of strategy and under what circumstances? After running a multinomial logistic model we find that, in contrast to the niche party thesis, regionalist parties strategize simultaneously along the territorial and the economic dimensions of competition, while state-wide parties react to the presence of regionalist opponents by incorporating the territorial dimension into the agenda.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Alonso, Sonia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Cabeza, Laura UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gomez, Braulio UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-389125
DOI:	10.1177/1354068815597576
Journal or Publication Title:	Party Polit.
Volume:	21
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 851 - 866
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1460-3683
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language COMPETITION; REGIONALIST; PREFERENCES Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/38912