Depolarization in the 2005 Autonomous Elections in the Basque Country: Towards a New Scenario For Peace?1

Pallarés, Francesc; Muñoz, Jordi; Retortillo, Alfredo

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“…La lectura espacial de la competición político-electoral no es nueva para la investigación de estos acontecimientos. Los modelos espaciales han estado siempre presentes en los trabajos académicos que han abordado dentro de nuestro país, el análisis de los procesos electorales y han demostrado ser de gran utilidad para el análisis de contextos políticos plurales como el que aquí nos ocupa (Padró-Solanet y Colomer, 1992;Riba, 1995;Fernández-Albertos, 2002;Sánchez-Cuenca 2003;Pallarés et al, 2006;Balcells, 2007;Fernández-Albertos y Lago, 2015;Leonisio y Strijbis, 2016). b) La dureza del clevage identitario que quiebra a la sociedad catalana.…”

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Rivas³

2017

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Rivas³

2017

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“…In the 2006 Catalan election, IC-V increased its vote share while PSC and PP both lost ground (Lago et al, 2007). In the 2005 Basque election, PSOE increased its vote share but did so largely at the expense of PP, while IU support remained stable (Pallares et al, 2006b). Turnout for regional elections is generally lower than in general elections, while dual voting is a permanent feature that benefits NSWP in regional elections and benefits SWP in general elections (Pallares et al, 1997;Hamann, 1999;Pallares and Keating, 2003).…”

Section: Party Competition At the Regional Levelmentioning

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“…Differential abstention is also relevant in the Basque Country, where a disproportionate share of PSOE and PP voters, mainly Spanish immigrants with a low sense of Basque identity, vote exclusively in general elections. SWP in the Basque Country perform better in general elections, although still with a minority of the vote share (Pallares et al, 1997;Pallares et al, 2006b). Dual voting is less common in the Basque Country, where voters are clearly aligned into nationalist and anti-nationalist camps (Llera, 1999;Gillespie, 2000).…”

Section: Party Competition At the Regional Levelmentioning

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Party Competition in the Spanish Regions

Wilson

2009

SSRN Journal

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Party politics in multi-level systems has become a growing research field in political science (see Hough et al, 2003; Hough and Jeffery, 2006), but has rarely focused on comparing structures of multi-level party competition. Regional party competition is particularly important in political systems where state decentralisation has significantly shifted the electoral and coalitional incentives available to party actors, whether statewide or nonstatewide. This paper will compare structures of party competition in the Spanish regions, using three principal dimensions of analysis: electoral support for statewide parties in regional elections; patterns of coalition formation at regional level; and patterns of alternation in regional government. The paper finds that multi-level party competition in Spain displays 'vertical' (central-regional) and 'horizontal' (inter-regional) incongruence (Thorlakson, 2006; 2007). This incongruence has never undermined party competition at central level, due partly to the weakness of systemic linkages between regional and central party systems. The main exception is Catalonia, where systemic linkages with Spanish politics are so strong that all parties (statewide and non-statewide) have sought to pursue a strategy of coalitional congruence. Divergent patterns of regional party competition have encouraged some regional branches of statewide parties to become more autonomous from the central leadership, both in their electoral strategies and coalitional choices, while others have remained closely integrated with the central leadership. This has significantly reinforced the degree of internal asymmetry in the multi-level organisation of statewide parties in Spain.

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“…Ibarretxe, the Basque president, was received with great ceremony at the Moncloa Palace, the residence of the Spanish presidency, something that had become obsolete under Aznar. In Euskadi the attitude of the socialists towards moderate nationalism after the 2005 elections for the Euskadi parliament had become more relaxed (Pallarés 2006). On 29 December 2005, the Basque socialists voted in favour of the Euskadi budget for 2006.…”

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The Basque power‐sharing experience: from a destructive to a constructive conflict?

Beck

2008

Nations and Nationalism

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Neither the devolution of powers to the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain nor more than a decade of power-sharing within this region has led to a peaceful settlement of the Basque conflict. Combining Kriesberg's approach to conflict resolution and consociational theory, past power-sharing experiences are analysed. The lack of overarching loyalties, traditions of compromise, comprehensive participation and the continuation of violence have frustrated power-sharing. After the 2006 ceasefire, the conditions for giving the conflict a constructive turn have not fundamentally changed. The potential for alternative forms of power-sharing as a way out of the Basque conflict, combined or not with innovative territorial arrangements cannot be employed because of multi-scale polarisation. De-escalation as a prerequisite for new types of power-sharing arrangements requires relearning democratic pluralism and a recognition of ethnic hybridity in this politically and geographically fragmented society.

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Depolarization in the 2005 Autonomous Elections in the Basque Country: Towards a New Scenario For Peace?1

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

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Party Competition in the Spanish Regions

The Basque power‐sharing experience: from a destructive to a constructive conflict?

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