Party competition over the centre-periphery cleavage in Spain

Party competition over the centre-periphery cleavage in Spain

A comparative analysis of Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, and the Canary Islands

  • Author: Reyes Pascual, Guillermo
  • Publisher: Dykinson
  • eISBN Pdf: 9788411706452
  • Place of publication:  Madrid , Spain
  • Year of digital publication: 2023
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 286
  • Language: Spanish
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of content
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Chapter 1: Multi-level party politics and the centre-periphery cleavage
    • 1.1. Theoretical umbrella
      • 1.1.1. The centre-periphery cleavage
      • 1.1.2. Party competition
    • 1.2. Main research question
    • 1.3. Spain as a politically salient case study
      • 1.3.1. The centre-periphery cleavage in Spain
      • 1.3.2. Saliency and position
      • 1.3.3. Strategies
      • 1.3.4. Identifying the gap in the literature
    • 1.4. Research method
    • 1.5. Conclusions
  • Chapter 2: Theoretical framework
    • 2.1. Conceptualisation
      • 2.1.1. Centres and peripheries
      • 2.1.2. Regions
      • 2.1.3. National identity, nacionalidad, and regional identity
      • 2.1.4. Parties
    • 2.2. Theoretical framework
      • 2.2.1. Pro-centre/periphery positions of parties
      • 2.2.2. Regional-level factors
        • 2.2.2.A) Distance
        • 2.2.2.B) Fragmentation
        • 2.2.2.C) Polycentricity
      • 2.2.3. Party-level factors
        • 2.2.3.A) General Framework
        • 2.2.3.B) Party type
        • 2.2.3.C) Party ideology
        • 2.2.3.D) Interaction between party type and ideology
        • 2.2.3.E) Party structure
        • 2.2.3.F) Interaction between the three party-level factors focused specifically on SWPs
    • 2.3. Conclusions
  • Chapter 3: Methodology
    • 3.1. Research strategy and case selection
      • 3.1.1. Research strategy: case study
      • 3.1.2. Case selection: Spain
    • 3.2. Research approach: qualitative analysis
    • 3.3. Selecting the regions
    • 3.4. Party manifestos
    • 3.5. Selecting parties and time period
      • 3.5.1. Parties
      • 3.5.2. Time period
    • 3.6. Measurements and analysis
      • 3.6.1. Operationalisation of the dependent variables
      • 3.6.2. Operationalisation of the explanatory and control variables
      • 3.6.3. Triangulation
      • 3.6.4. Qualitative analysis performed
    • 3.7. Main hypotheses
    • 3.8. Conclusions
  • Chapter 4: Analysis
    • 4.1. Analysis
      • 4.1.1. Saliency of the regional level
      • 4.1.2. Constitutional status of the region
      • 4.1.3. Position on competence distribution
      • 4.1.4. Identity
    • 4.2. Discussion
    • 4.3. Conclusions
  • Chapter 5: Discussion
    • 5.1. Discussion of the findings
    • 5.2. Contributions to the literature on party competition along the centreperiphery cleavage
    • 5.3. Conclusions
  • Chapter 6: Conclusions
  • Apendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • References and further bibliography

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