Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ignacio Lago-Peņas
Author-Email: ignacio.lago@upf.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Social and Political Sciences
Author-Name: Santiago Lago-Peņas 
Author-Email: slagop@uvigo.es
Author-Workplace-Name: REDE, IEB, and University of Vigo
Title: Decentralization and Nationalization of Party Systems
Abstract: Based on a sample of 227 elections in seventeen Western European countries over the period of 1945-1998, this paper examines to what extent party systems are shaped by fiscal and political decentralization. With the exception of a few special cases, empirical evidence does not support the existence of a robust relationship between the degree of decentralization and the nationalization of party systems.
Keywords: Decentralization, federalism, nationalization, party systems.
Length: 33 pages
Creation-Date: 2010-02-01
File-URL: http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp1006.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper1006