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1 online resource |
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Part I. Describing, Measuring, and Comparing the Two Dimensions: 1. Dimensions of party nationalization: static and dynamic; 2. A typology of party nationalization; 3. Measuring static and dynamic nationalization; 4. Applying the model: patterns of static and dynamic nationalization; Part II. Explaining Party Nationalization; 5. Explaining static and dynamic nationalization; 6. Institutions, ethnic heterogeneity, and party nationalization: a statistical analysis; Part III. Implications: Nationalization as an Explanatory Variable: 7. Regionalism, accountability, and party nationalization; 8. The role of party nationalization on party unity and retrospective voting; 9. The role of party nationalization on collective action and dissent among co-partisan legislators: roll call voting and bill co-sponsorship; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. Summary and Conclusions |
| Summary |
Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a statistically-based and graphical account of party nationalization, providing methodology and data for legislative elections covering scores of parties across dozens of countries. The book divides party nationalization into two dimensions - static and dynamic - to capture different aspects of localism, both with important implications for representation. Static nationalization measures the consistency in a party's support across the country and thus shows whether parties are able to encompass local concerns into their platforms. Dynamic nationalization, in turn, measures the consistency among the districts in over-time change in electoral results, under the presumption that where districts differ in their electoral responses, local factors must drive politics. Each of the two dimensions, in sum, considers representation from the perspective of the mix of national versus local politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 12, 2017) |
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Political party organization.
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Politics, Practical.
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Party affiliation.
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Representative government and representation.
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Comparative government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Comparative government.
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Party affiliation.
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Political party organization.
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Politics, Practical.
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Representative government and representation.
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Partei.
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Gemeinde.
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Problem.
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Offenheit.
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Organisationsstruktur.
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Dezentralisation.
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Repräsentation Politik.
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Internationaler Vergleich.
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Demokratie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017026196 |
| ISBN |
9781108246217 |
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1108246214 |
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9781108227865 |
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1108227864 |
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1108400345 |
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9781108400343 |
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