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Title: | The Political geography of government formation: Why regional parties join coalitions |
Author: | Falcó Gimeno, Albert |
Keywords: | Governs de coalició Geografia política Coalition governments Political geography |
Issue Date: | 9-Jan-2018 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Abstract: | Political parties differ in the geographic distribution of their support. This article argues that a regionalized distribution of a party's votes facilitates its participation in government, because it produces a tendency to prioritize demands for locally targeted goods that are more conducive to the negotiation of reciprocal logrolling agreements with potential partners. Using a measure based on the Gini coefficient, I empirically evaluate the extent to which the geographic concentration of votes plays a role in the formation of governments, taking Spanish local elections from 1987 to 2011 as a test bed. With around 500 formation opportunities and 20,000 potential governments, multinomial choice models are estimated (conditional and mixed logits) and a very sizable effect is documented: A one-standard deviation increase in the electoral geographic concentration of the members of a potential government almost doubles the likelihood of its formation. These findings are relevant for students of government formation, regional parties, and political geography. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817750865 |
It is part of: | Party Politics, 2018 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/165088 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817750865 |
ISSN: | 1354-0688 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret) |
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