Party competition over the centre-periphery cleavage in Spain

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

Autor: Reyes Pascual, Guillermo
Editor: Dykinson
eISBN Pdf: 9788411706452
Lugar de publicación: Madrid , España
Año de publicación digital: 2023
Mes: Octubre
Páginas: 286
Idioma: Español

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