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Oxford MultiLevel Electoral Politics Beyond the SecondOrder Election Model 2017 Edition by Sona Nadenichek Golder, Ignacio Lago
National-level elections receive
more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even
though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European
levels of government has grown in recent years. The growing importance of
multiple electoral arenas suggests that scholars should be cautious about
examining single levels in isolation. Taking the multilevel structure of
electoral politics seriously requires a re-examination of
how the incentives created by electoral
institutions affect the behaviour of voters and party elites.
The standard approach to analysing multilevel
elections is the second-order election (SOE) model, in which national elections
are considered to be first-order elections while other elections are second
order. However, this model does not provide micro mechanisms that determine how
elections in one arena affect those in another, or explain variations in
individual voting behaviour.
The objective of this book is to explain how party
and voter behaviour in a given election is affected by the existence of
multiple electoral arenas. It provides original qualitative and quantitative
data to examine European, national, and subnational elections in France,
Germany, and Spain from 2011-2015. The volume examines party mobilization
efforts across multiple electoral arenas, as well as decisions by individual voters
with respect to turnout, strategic voting, and accountability. This
book provides the first systematic analysis of
multilevel electoral politics at three different levels across multiple
countries.
Comparative Politics is a series for researchers,
teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised
by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The
series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political
Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu.
The series is edited by Emilie van Haute,
Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand
Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana
University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science,
University of Houston.
1: Multilevel Governance: An Overview
2: Parties, Voters, and Multi-level Elections: a Conceptual Framework
3: The Institutional and Political Context of Multilevel Elections in France,
Germany, and Spain
4: Mobilization in Multi-level Systems
5: Turnout in Multi-level Systems
6: Strategic and Sincere Voting in Multi-Level Systems
7: Accountability across Elections
8: Conclusion