The nationalization of party systems: Conceptual issues and alternative district-focused measures

Kasuya, Yuko; Moenius, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2007.09.004

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“…Cumulative regional inequality (Rose/Urwin 1975: 30 Three-dimensional measure see Kasuya/Moenius (2008) Table 4 shows a fictitious example that illustrates a possible bias of the measure by Kasuya and Moenius (2008). The white fields show a party system with four districts and four political parties.…”

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“…I propose a measure which is based on the difference between the national party system and each regional party system, instead of the difference between the national party system and an average regional party system (formulae are reported in the appendix). Kasuya and Moenius (2008) propose an alternative version of a party inflation measure: they add two new dimensions to their concept. They still take the difference between the average party system size at the district level and the national party system (party inflation) into account, but besides this, they now also include the variance and kurtosis between districts.…”

Section: The Problems Of Inflation Measures and A Further Developmentmentioning

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Measuring party nationalisation: A new Gini-based indicator that corrects for the number of units

2010

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The study of the territorial distribution of votes in elections has become an important field of the political party research in recent years. Quantitative studies on the homogeneity of votes and turnout employ different indicators of territorial variance, but despite important progresses in measurement, many of them are sensitive to size and number of political parties or electoral districts. This article proposes a new 'standardised party nationalisation score', which is based on the Gini coefficient of inequalities in distribution. Different from previous indicators, the standardised party nationalisation score weights for the sizes of territorial units (such as electoral districts) within a country, and considers the different numbers of territorial units in different countries.

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Section: The Problems Of Inflation Measures and A Further Developmentmentioning

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Measuring party nationalisation: A new Gini-based indicator that corrects for the number of units

2010

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“…Does decentralization reduce the spatial homogeneity of party systems? According to the rational choice institutionalist approach (Chhibber and Kollman, ) as national governments decentralize power, party system nationalization should decrease – the latter defined as the extent to which parties compete with similar strength across sub‐national geographic units (Kasuya and Moenius, ). However, in a cross‐country study of Western European countries, Lago and Lago‐Peñas () do not find robust relationships between the degree of decentralization and party system nationalization.…”

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey

Martínez-Vázquez

Peñas

Sacchi

2016

Journal of Economic Surveys

262

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In this paper, we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economy, society and politics. Our first target is the examination of two crucial and yet unsolved issues in the empirical literature on decentralization: the proper measurement of decentralization itself and its potential endogeneity in econometric estimates. Then, we discuss the main existing findings on the effects of decentralization on a relevant list of socio-economic issues. The impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on political institutions and public policies is also considered. Complete answers on the impact of fiscal decentralization are not likely to be certain but, overall, there are reasons to be optimistic about the net positive result. Our survey by necessity has to be selective but it presents a balanced view of what is known and what is not yet known opening room for further research and practice on fiscal decentralization.

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“…Originally describing the degree to which a party's vote in territorial units varies over time, the dynamic conception of nationalisation revealed the extent to which voters react alike to statewide stimuli (Stokes, 1967). Its distributional counterpart focuses on the degree to which there is an equal division of party votes across territorial units (Morgenstern & Swindle, 2005;Kasuya & Moenius, 2008). Finally, a party-linkage variant probes into the extent to which candidates over a territory are linked together under a common party label (Chhibber & Kollman, 2004).…”

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Fifty Shades of Rokkan? Reconceiving Local Party System Nationalisation in Belgium

Steyvers

Heyerick²

2017

HKJU-CCPA

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U radu se istražuje nacionalizacija lokalne politike u belgijskom kontekstu. Problematici se pristupa detaljnije od tradicionalne podjele stranaka na nacionalne i nenacionalne, te se izvode tri glavna zaključka. Prvo na temelju analize vertikalne autonomije stranaka možemo zaključiti da postoje četiri podtipa liste: državne, pseudodržavne, pseudolokalne i nezavisne lokalne liste. Podjela sudionika posljednjih dvaju krugova belgijskih lokalnih izbora na navedena četiri podtipa pokazuje da prevladavaju, što se belgijskih općina tiče, liste koje su makar neizravno povezane s državnom strankom (čak i kada nemaju državni predznak). Nadalje, ova se tipologija koristi kako bi se procijenila nacionalizacija lokacijski ograničenog skupa stranaka. Razvijeni su indeksi nacionalizacije lokalne politike koji pokazuju omjer između navedenih podtipova u izbornoj i u parlamentarnoj areni. Rezultati upućuju na to da je riječ o relativnoj, a ne o potpunoj nacionalizaciji lokalnog političkog sustava. Nacionalizacija je izraženija u slučaju lokalnih vijeća nego lokalnih izbora. Konačno, u radu se nastoji objasniti varijacija u nacionalizaciji lokalnog političkog sustava razmatranjem zajedničkog učinka varijabli lokacijski ograničene društvene morfologije i političke ekologije. Binarna logistička regresija pokazuje da je politička ekologija (češće) važnija od društvene morfologije (predvidljivija je u slučaju parlamentarnog indeksa nego u slučaju izbornoga). Javljaju se i drugi učinci. Morfološki faktori ne utječu znatno na vjerojatnost da će doći do nacionalizacije izbornoga lokalnog političkog sustava, no pojedini morfološki faktori ipak utječu na nacionalizaciju parlamentarnoga lokalnog političkog sustava. Nadalje, isti ekološki faktori utječu na nacionalizaciju kako izbornog tako i parlamentarnog lokalnog političkog sustava. Tu je izražena važnost dotadašnjeg razvojnog puta i prethodnih odabira (path dependance) koji utječu na nacionalizaciju lokalne politike. Ipak, varijacija u velikoj mjeri ostaje naobjašnjena, što je povezano s ograničenjima kvantitativnog pristupa usmjerenoga na učinak vanjskih utjecaja na nacionalizaciju lokalne politike. Kako bi se postiglo cjelovito razumijevanje, valja proučiti interakciju s unutarnjim stranačkim odlukama. Buduća se istraživanja također trebaju usmjeriti na komparativnu primjenu rezultata - u kojoj je mjeri i u kojim uvjetima moguća.

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The nationalization of party systems: Conceptual issues and alternative district-focused measures

Cited by 56 publications

References 8 publications

Measuring party nationalisation: A new Gini-based indicator that corrects for the number of units

Measuring party nationalisation: A new Gini-based indicator that corrects for the number of units

The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey

Fifty Shades of Rokkan? Reconceiving Local Party System Nationalisation in Belgium

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