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143729
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THE FALL OF 2015 brought along an escalation of a separatist conflict in Spain as a movement in Catalonia for the secession of the autonomous region from the country gained momentum. On September 27, Catalonia, which has the official status of an "autonomous community," held early elections for its parliament, which is part of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the historic institution that rules the region and includes its legislature, government and president of the region. The president, who is the head of the Catalonian government, is elected by the regional parliament. September's elections were won by a wide margin by a coalition of two nationalist parties - the ruling Convergéncia Democrática de Catalunya (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia) or CDC and the left-wing Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) or ERC.
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120590
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2013.
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Broader structural developments in Japan in the past two decades-decline of clientelist practices, partisan de-alignment, and decentralization-have dissolved traditionally close ties between national and local party systems, creating an environment conducive to the emergence of local parties. In this context, popular chief executives in four regions launched new parties. I trace how these parties emerged and how national parties reacted to them, from the appearance of the new-party leaders to the 2011 local elections. In comparing the four cases, two factors appear to shape their trajectories: the urbanness of their electoral environments and the responses of the two national parties at the local and the national level. In dealing with the new challengers, both the Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party of Japan experienced considerable intraparty conflict and defections, indicating a process of delinking between national and local party systems.
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