Decentralisation and regional cabinet size: the Spanish case (1979–2015)

Vall-Prat, Pau; Rodón, Toni

doi:10.1080/01402382.2016.1275422

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“…All Spanish regions enjoy a high degree of self-government and the differences in their competences as the Regional Authority Index (RAI, see Hooghe et al, 2016) shows. However, as the RAI scores do not show much variation during the period from 2003 to 2016, we control for the cumulative number of competences related to welfare state policy transferred from the central government to the regional ones in the analyses (Vall-Prat and Rodon, 2017). We also include a dummy as a further explanatory variable that identifies those regions that acceded faster to subnational government competences and have a distinct culture, language and traditions (Catalonia, Basque Country, Navarre and Galicia).…”

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“…We also include a dummy as a further explanatory variable that identifies those regions that acceded faster to subnational government competences and have a distinct culture, language and traditions (Catalonia, Basque Country, Navarre and Galicia). A significant amount of the population living in these regions identifies with the region rather than with Spain (Vall-Prat and Rodon, 2017). The reason for adopting this simple dichotomy is twofold.…”

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“…Spain is a decentralized country where regions have a high degree of authority (Hooghe et al, 2016; Vall-Prat and Rodon, 2017). This affects the congruence between regional and national manifestos because regional party branches might find incentives in deviating from the national party positions as voters are more aware of the different levels of governance (León, 2014).…”

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Parties have strong incentives to present a relatively cohesive policy position to the voters across different levels of a political system. However, the adoption of inclusive forms of candidate selection methods like primaries could result in the selection of top candidates for elections on the subnational sphere who are not favoured by the party leadership. This is often seen as a threat to high levels of intra-party programmatic cohesion. Because subnational party organizations depend to a significant degree on the support from their national party, we argue that regional party branches that selected their top candidates by means of a primary adopt a policy position that deviates less strongly from the one of their national party. However, candidates selected by primaries might need to be responsive to the preferences of their regional selectorate, so that the incentives for parties at a regional level to deviate substantially from the position of their national party organization could increase. By analysing the content of 150 regional election manifestos of Spanish parties, we find that if a party’s top candidate for a regional election is selected in a primary, then the policy distance between the respective regional and national party decreases. However, this effect is not observable for recently founded parties.

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Decentralisation and regional cabinet size: the Spanish case (1979–2015)

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