How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power
to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is devolution the best response to these …

This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for
the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized …

The article aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of decentralisation on
regionalist parties' strength in both national and regional elections. We consider …

There has been surprisingly little literature differentiating between different kinds of ethnic
parties. Most works tend to treat all ethnic parties as if they are basically the same. Although …

The classical outbidding model of ethnic politics argues that democratic competition
involving ethnic parties inevitably leads to ethnic outbidding where parties adopt ever more …

En países descentralizados, los partidos nacionales desarrollan intereses tanto nacionales
como regionales. Nuestra hipótesis es que las posiciones de los partidos nacionales en la …

This article aims to explain longitudinal and cross-sectional variation in regional government
composition–oversized majorities and incongruence between regional and national …

The study of South Tyrol's negotiated autonomy is both a way of understanding how the
Italian Alpine area successfully accommodated its linguistic groups (German-, Italianand …

The literature on legislative recruitment has existed largely independently of the literature on
party clientelism in new democracies. The Romanian data on parliamentary representation …

On the basis of aggregated and individual-level survey data of national and regional
elections in Spain, this paper analyzes how economic voting is impacted by vertical and …