Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Werner, Annika - Lacewell, Onawa Promise
    Programmatic Supply and the Autonomy of US State Parties in 2008 and 2010
    in Regional and Federal Studies , volume 22 n.5 ,  2012 ,  533-552
    This paper examines the extent to which US state parties are autonomous from national party inuence, evaluates how much state party autonomy varies across the USA, and examines possible explanations for this variance. We use newly collected party platform data from US state parties between 2008 and 2010 to examine the policy autonomy of state vis--vis national parties. In general, we nd that US state parties have more extreme policy positions than the national parties. We also nd signicant variance in the levels of autonomy across state parties and that Democratic state parties are more autonomous than Republican ones.
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