British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics

Hopkin, Jonathan

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“…Hopkin & Bradbury, 2006). At subnational level, the Welsh branch insisted on rebranding as the Welsh Labour despite little divergence in terms of party organisation at subnational initially.…”

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Democratizing Candidate Selection

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“…Different authors have analyzed the effects of sub-state elections in forcing nation-wide political parties to "regionalize" their structure and tactics, in Spain (Pallárés and Keating, 2003;Libbrecht et al, 2011), as well as in other countries (Houten, 2009;Hopkin and Bradbury, 2006;Chhibber and Kollman, 2004;Brancati, 2008). Thus, whether it is due to the political manipulation of regional political elites or to the regionalization of welfare regimes (Mota, 1998: 5;Díez, 1999;Martínez-Herrera, 2002: 424-6;McEwen and Moreno, 2005), decentralization has been related to the development of regional identities at the cost of state-wide national identities .…”

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Country-level variables and imagined national communities within EU-15 countries

Jiménez¹,

Fuentevilla

Ardoy

2016

Política Soc.

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Abstract. This study analyses to what extent there are similarities and differences between EU-15 countries with regard to their citizens' national identities; as well as the influence of country-level variables on identity patterns within clusters of countries. It uses different quantitative techniques and the European Values Study 2008 data release. First, clusters of countries are formed using identity variables. Next, country-level variables dealing with economic performance, politics, history and ethnic-cultural traits are operationalized and tested through categorical regression and discriminant analysis. Results confirm that there are clusters of countries with particular configurations of identity patterns and that country-level variables influence identity. Keywords: national identity; cross-national comparison; EU-15; European Values Study; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis; categorical regression.[es] Variables contextuales y comunidades nacionales imaginadas en los países de la UE-15Resumen. Este estudio analiza las similitudes y diferencias entre los países de la UE-15 en cuanto a las identidades nacionales de sus ciudadanos; así como la posible influencia de variables contextuales sobre las configuraciones identitarias en conglomerados de países. Para ello se utilizan diferentes técnicas cuantitativas y los datos de la oleada 2008 de Encuesta Europea de Valores. En primer lugar se forman conglomerados de países usando variables de identidad. A continuación se operacionalizan variables contextuales de rendimiento económico, políticas, históricas, y étnico-culturales, cuya importancia para diferenciar los conglomerados formados previamente se contrasta mediante análisis de regresión categórica y análisis discriminante. Los resultados constatan que existen conglomerados de países con configuraciones identitarias suficientemente diferenciadas; y que las variables contextuales seleccionadas influyen sobre sobre ellas.

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“…Scholars have begun collecting empirical data on party organisational responses to the strengthening of regional government in cases such as Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK (Detterbeck and Renzsch 2003;Fabre 2008;Wilson 2008). Single or comparative case studies have emerged on the territorialisation of party organisations such as the Catalan Socialist Party (PSOE) and the Scottish and Welsh Labour parties (see Hepburn 2006;Hopkin and Bradbury 2006;McEwen 2004). Moreover, first steps have been made towards analysing the effects of state decentralisation on formal party structures (van Biezen and Hopkin 2004), the impact of devolution on electoral politics (Hough and Jeffery 2006), the mechanics of party systems at different territorial levels (Deschouwer 2003;Thorlakson 2006) and the strategies pursued by statewide parties in response to multi-level political dynamics (Detterbeck and Hepburn 2009-forthcoming).…”

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Small Worlds in Canada and Europe: A Comparison of Regional Party Systems in Quebec, Bavaria and Scotland

Hepburn

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

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IntroductionThis paper explores the dynamics of regional party systems in a comparative analysis of three 'small worlds' in Canada and Europe. The analysis forms part of wider exploration of the enduring impact of Elkins and Simeon's (1980) book Small Worlds on approaches to political science. The paper draws primarily on Elkins' analysis of Canadian provincial party systems. His research revealed that there was a strong regional dimension to party competition and that 'parties were themselves divided along provincial lines as much as party lines'. Elkins recommended two paths of further research: greater in-depth analysis of regional systems, and a broader comparison across countries. This paper aims to meet both these requests.Québec, Bavaria and Scotland are three regions nested within multi-level states. Each has a pronounced territorial identity and a strong regionalist party, factors that have contributed to an important territorial cleavage in political life. These cases have also been described as 'stateless nations' embedded in the larger structure of the state, presenting alternate worlds for political socialisation. As individual 'containers' of social attitudes and behaviour, these small worlds have distinctive party systems reflecting the efforts of regional parties to reflect the values of the electorate. The aim of this paper is to unpack territorial differentiation in Québec, Bavaria and Scotland by exploring the internal dynamics of party systems, and their integration into the state. It also modestly aspires to extend parts of Elkins and Simeon's thesis by introducing new research on party competition through the lens of multi-level politics, and by translating the Small Worlds thesis to a European context. The paper begins with a review of recent European approaches to party behaviour in multi-level systems, before introducing the rich body of literature in Canadian political science exploring the organisation of parties along federal-provincial lines. In particular, it considers the methodological relevance of Elkins and Simeon's Small Worlds thesis for the analysis of regional politics beyond Canada. Three lines of questioning about regional party systems, which were originally posed by the authors in 1980, are then discussed in the context of present-day developments in Canadian and European territorial politics. Specifically, these questions deal with: (1) the (in)congruence of party systems and competition at the regional and state levels; (2) the adaptation of statewide parties to the regional level; and (3) the conduct of party competition on regional issues. These three indicators of distinctive political 'small worlds' are then explored in detail in each of the case studies. The final part of the paper compares party competition in multi-level political settings, and considers the continuing relevance of the Small Worlds thesis for the analysis of regional party politics in newly decentralising as well as established federal states in Canada, Europe and beyond.

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British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics

Abstract: Original citation:Hopkin, Jonathan and Bradbury, Jonathan (2006) British statewide parties and multilevel politics.

Cited by 65 publications

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Small Worlds in Canada and Europe: A Comparison of Regional Party Systems in Quebec, Bavaria and Scotland

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