Are Politics Local?: The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization Around the World

ISBN-13: 9781108400343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 311 str.

Scott Morgenstern

Opis

Are politics local? Why? Where? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects?

Recenzje

'This book by Scott Morgenstern is an important landmark study that puts geography high on the research agenda of comparative political science. Three features make this book worthwhile reading for scholars working on the nationalization of elections and parties … the book Are Politics Local? constitutes a benchmark that will serve as a necessary starting point for scholars who set out to further explore party nationalization.' Arjan H. Schakel, Political Science Quarterly

Spis treści

Part I. Describing, Measuring, and Comparing the Two Dimensions: 1. Dimensions of party nationalization: static and dynamic; 2. A typology of party nationalization; 3. Measuring static and dynamic nationalization; 4. Applying the model: patterns of static and dynamic nationalization; Part II. Explaining Party Nationalization; 5. Explaining static and dynamic nationalization; 6. Institutions, ethnic heterogeneity and party nationalization: a statistical analysis; Part III. Implications: Nationalization as an Explanatory Variable: 7. Regionalism, accountability, and party nationalization; 8. The role of party nationalization on party unity and retrospective voting; 9. The role of party nationalization on collective action and dissent among co-partisan legislators: roll call voting and bill co-sponsorship; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. Summary and Conclusions.