Bullettin n. 1/2011 | ||
June 2011 | ||
Lago-Peñas Ignacio, Lago-Peñas Santiago |
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Decentralization and the nationalization of party systems | ||
in Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy , Volume 29, Issue 2, April , 2011 , 244-263 | ||
On the basis of a sample of 227 elections in seventeen Western European countries over the period 1945 – 98, we examine 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. | ||