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Issue salience in regional party manifestos in Spain / Libbrecht, Liselotte; Maddens, Bart; Swenden, Wilfried; Fabre, Elodie

Libbrecht, Liselotte	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article analyses the dynamics of electoral competition in a multilevel setting. It is based on a content analysis of the party manifestos of the Spanish PP and PSOE in eight regional elections held between 2001 and 2003. It provides an innovative coding scheme for analysing regional party manifestos and on that basis seeks to account for inter-regional, intra-party and inter-party differences in regional campaigning. The authors have tried to explain the inter-regional variation of the issue profiles of state-wide parties in regional elections on the basis of a model with four independent variables: the asymmetric nature of the system, the electoral cycle, the regional party systems and the organisation of the state-wide parties. Three of their hypotheses are rejected, but the stronger variations in the regional issue profiles of the PSOE corroborate the assumption that parties with a more decentralised party organisation support regionally more diverse campaigning. The article concludes by offering an alternative explanation for this finding and by suggesting avenues for further research.

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Spain ; Manifestos ; Regional Party ; Regional Elections ; PSOE

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Money talks: economy tops the Indian election agenda / Randolph, Eric

Randolph, Eric	Journal Article
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2014.

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Economy ; Political Stability ; India ; BJP ; Social Stability ; Economic Stability ;
Regional Party ; Narendra Modi ; External Stability ; Security Stability ; Indian Election Agenda

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Odisha landslide buries both national parties: assessing the state and parliamentary elections of 2014 / Manor, James

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In May 2014, a regional party in Odisha, the Biju Janata Dal, defied national trends by thrashing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress Party at both parliamentary and state elections. It offered voters a high-profile regional leader who had radically centralised power and retained the capacity to govern somewhat effectively, even forcefully. It thus countered the appeal of BJP leader Narendra Modi to offer those same things. This analysis examines how this state government – like a few others – was able to withstand the national swing towards the BJP and Modi.

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Election ; India ; Regional Party ; Odisha

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