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Title: | Economic Shocks, Mobilization, and Regional Elite Splits |
Author: | Vall-Prat, Pau |
Keywords: | Elit (Ciències socials) Política regional Geografia econòmica Crisis Política comercial Ciències polítiques Elite (Social sciences) Economic zoning Economic geography Crises Commercial policy Political science |
Issue Date: | 6-Jun-2022 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Abstract: | What are the origins of elite splits? Why do regional elites break away from central elites and develop regional parties? This paper contends that intra-elite differences are more likely to be politicized when an economic shock exacerbates pre-existing asymmetric economic preferences and disadvantaged elites can mobilize the electorate on the basis of identity. I employ constituency-level data from Catalonia spanning the late 19th and early 20th century to test which factors influenced regional elite decisions to form a regional elite political party. To understand elite divisions, I exploit a historical exogenous trade shock and its asymmetric impact within Catalonia, and the availability of identity-based mobilization agents. The results show that regional elite splits took place in areas more affected by the 1898 colonial trade shock and where elites had larger mobilization capacity. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/2F00104140221089641 |
It is part of: | Comparative Political Studies, 2022 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/187325 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2F00104140221089641 |
ISSN: | 0010-4140 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret) |
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