Juan Rodríguez-Teruel
Biographic Data
| ID | 232109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Rodríguez-Teruel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez-Teruel |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ-TERUEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de València |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7112-986X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutionalization without moderation? Radical right post-breakthrough adaptation in multilevel Spain. The case of Vox
How do new radical-right parties adapt after their electoral breakthrough to institutionalize within democratic systems? This article examines post-breakthrough adaptation through a longitudinal study of Vox in Spain from 2020 to 2025. Rather than explaining electoral emergence, it conceptualizes institutionalization as a dynamic process shaped by the tension between anti-system rhetoric and the demands of multilevel governance. Using a mixed-met…
Do political parties and youth wings shape political ambition differently? Insights from Spain
Why do some young party activists build careers inside party organizations, while others move more quickly into public office? In this article, we show that the answer lies not only in young activists’ ambition, but also in the organizational arenas in which they are active. Drawing on three original surveys of activists attending the Spanish People’s Party and its youth wing, Nuevas Generaciones, conferences between 2008 and 2012, we demonstrate…
Interrogating regional territorial representation in post-democratic Spain
In this article, we examine the function of territorial representation by national cabinet ministers in multi-ethnic democracies. In particular, we observe whether ministers from regions with a specific identity shape a distinctive sense of representation in the national executive, and whether this depends on how political parties and the party system articulate it. Borrowing from Pitkin’s four dimensions of political representation, we investiga…
A dual summit of power? Career movements and multilevel circulation in the Spanish executive elite
Drawing from the literature on political ambition, this article examines whether politicians holding executive offices exhibit similar patterns of movement between different levels of government as parliamentary elites. It also tests the influence of various institutional and political variables typical of federal systems. Focusing on Spain, the study classifies career movements based on the initial position and the direction of advancement, anal…
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
Regional Ambassadors or State Agents? Assessing the Role of Catalan Cabinet Ministers in Spain
This study focuses on Catalan cabinet ministers in democratic Spain with a view to understanding what function they perform in the central government: regional ambassador or state agent? To this end, this analysis draws on a sub-dataset comprised of 22 Catalan cabinet ministers taken from a general pool of 220 cabinet ministers and 371 ministerial appointments from 1977 to 2021. Our findings demonstrate, first, that no Catalan cabinet minister ha…
The Territorial Dimension of Ministerial Selection in Spain: Constrained Consociationalism under Majoritarian Cabinets
Although frequently depicted as a purely majoritarian system, the recruitment of executive elites in Spain is said to incorporate unofficial ‘quotas’ allowing the representation of territorial minorities. But does the selection of cabinet ministers in Spain produce consociational-like effects? This study aims to answer this question through a statistical model based on an original dataset of 223 cabinet ministers and 375 appointments from 1977 to…
Southern Europe Managing the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Crucial Effect of Timing
This article, which introduces a special issue, compares the record of five South European states – Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey – in managing the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Southern Europe’s reputation for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems all posed potential obstacles to an effective governmental response. However, despite these shared characteristics, these countries’ records in Covid…
The Limits of Power Concentration and Expert Knowledge in Emergency Management: Spain’s Government Response during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Focusing on the central government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis during the first wave in Spain, the article analyses the executive’s strategy of power concentration, and the factors that shape its implementation. We sketch how the crisis erupted, the main measures and strategies adopted by the national executive, the role of the experts, and the interaction with other political actors and institutions. We also explore the second phase and ho…
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
International audience
The Asymmetrical Effect of Polarization on Support for Independence: The Case of Catalonia
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarization at the mass level in the centre-periphery dimension. We analyse the rapid rise in support for independence in Catalonia, focusing on the role of party competition around the centre-periphery cleavage. We argue that mainstream actors’ adoption of centrifugal party strategies with respect to the national question produced a polarizing dynamic in the party system that eventually caused vote…
The triumph of partisanship: Political scientists in the public debate about Catalonia’s independence crisis (2010–2018)
Participation in the public debate constitutes one of the most evident avenues for political scientists to demonstrate the social relevance of the discipline. This article focuses on two questions: the types of roles political scientists adopt in their public interventions and the potential tensions between their public engagement and the epistemic norms regulating academic and research activities. We investigate these questions in the context of…
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Polarisation and Electoral Realignment: The Case of the Right-Wing Parties in Spain
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby support for the long-predominant Partido Popular has been eroded dramatically to the benefit of new challengers. Measuring ideological polarisation at the party system level and at the individual level, we show how the polarising strategy implemented by the liberal Ciu…
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain: A preliminary assessment
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
Reducing the gap between leaders and voters? Elite polarization, outbidding competition, and the rise of secessionism in Catalonia
The ethnic outbidding thesis explains party polarization as a consequence of political changes amongst voters. We argued instead that party elites' extreme position on the national identity cleavage can help polarizing strategies to prevail over moderate strategies in a context of increasing political uncertainty, without previous voters' polarization. We test successfully this hypothesis in Catalonia by analysing the polarization of political pa…
Politicians, experts or both? Democratic delegation and junior ministers in Spain
Fast and Furious: Podemos’ Quest for Power in Multi-level Spain
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
Going National: Ciudadanos from Catalonia to Spain
Ciudadanos, a party founded in Catalonia in 2006, has recently acquired a major role in the Spanish political system. This article examines why it was formed almost ten years ago and how it has evolved since; its ideological principles and policy menu; the party organisation and leadership; the main determinants of its vote, and the structure of opportunities faced by the party in the 2015 general election. It considers Ciudadanos in two differen…
The Carrot and the Stick: Party Regulation and Politics in Democratic Spain
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
Se han hecho más democráticos los partidos en España? La evolución en las reglas de elección del líder (1977-2008)
En este trabajo, los autores verifican si, entre 1977 y 2008, ha habido un aumento de la democracia interna en los principales partidos políticos españoles. Para ello, analizan el proceso de selección del líder, al tiempo que cuestionan si ha habido un incremento de la igualdad en la participación para elegirlo, favoreciendo sistemas representativos o de elección directa. El artículo plantea también la hipótesis de si el grado de igualdad en las …
Reducing the gap between leaders and voters? Elite polarization, outbidding competition, and the rise of secessionism in Catalonia
The ethnic outbidding thesis explains party polarization as a consequence of political changes amongst voters. We argued instead that party elites' extreme position on the national identity cleavage can help polarizing strategies to prevail over moderate strategies in a context of increasing political uncertainty, without previous voters' polarization. We test successfully this hypothesis in Catalonia by analysing the polarization of political pa…
Fast and Furious: Podemos’ Quest for Power in Multi-level Spain
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
Going National: Ciudadanos from Catalonia to Spain
Ciudadanos, a party founded in Catalonia in 2006, has recently acquired a major role in the Spanish political system. This article examines why it was formed almost ten years ago and how it has evolved since; its ideological principles and policy menu; the party organisation and leadership; the main determinants of its vote, and the structure of opportunities faced by the party in the 2015 general election. It considers Ciudadanos in two differen…
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
Polarisation and Electoral Realignment: The Case of the Right-Wing Parties in Spain
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby support for the long-predominant Partido Popular has been eroded dramatically to the benefit of new challengers. Measuring ideological polarisation at the party system level and at the individual level, we show how the polarising strategy implemented by the liberal Ciu…
Ministerial and Parliamentary Elites in Multilevel Spain 1977-2009
In decentralized European parliamentary democracies future governing elites often acquire political experience and attain top positions by passing through sub-national political institutions. In doing so, elites circumvent and reduce the importance of national parliaments. Previous research has advanced several explanations for this pattern: Europe's tradition of bureaucratic government; parties with open methods for selecting parliamentary candi…
A new political elite in Western Europe? The political careers of regional prime ministers in newly decentralised countries
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain: A preliminary assessment
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
The Carrot and the Stick: Party Regulation and Politics in Democratic Spain
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
The Territorial Dimension of Ministerial Selection in Spain: Constrained Consociationalism under Majoritarian Cabinets
Although frequently depicted as a purely majoritarian system, the recruitment of executive elites in Spain is said to incorporate unofficial ‘quotas’ allowing the representation of territorial minorities. But does the selection of cabinet ministers in Spain produce consociational-like effects? This study aims to answer this question through a statistical model based on an original dataset of 223 cabinet ministers and 375 appointments from 1977 to…
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Politicians, experts or both? Democratic delegation and junior ministers in Spain
The triumph of partisanship: Political scientists in the public debate about Catalonia’s independence crisis (2010–2018)
Participation in the public debate constitutes one of the most evident avenues for political scientists to demonstrate the social relevance of the discipline. This article focuses on two questions: the types of roles political scientists adopt in their public interventions and the potential tensions between their public engagement and the epistemic norms regulating academic and research activities. We investigate these questions in the context of…
Southern Europe Managing the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Crucial Effect of Timing
This article, which introduces a special issue, compares the record of five South European states – Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey – in managing the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Southern Europe’s reputation for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems all posed potential obstacles to an effective governmental response. However, despite these shared characteristics, these countries’ records in Covid…
The Limits of Power Concentration and Expert Knowledge in Emergency Management: Spain’s Government Response during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Focusing on the central government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis during the first wave in Spain, the article analyses the executive’s strategy of power concentration, and the factors that shape its implementation. We sketch how the crisis erupted, the main measures and strategies adopted by the national executive, the role of the experts, and the interaction with other political actors and institutions. We also explore the second phase and ho…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
Interrogating regional territorial representation in post-democratic Spain
In this article, we examine the function of territorial representation by national cabinet ministers in multi-ethnic democracies. In particular, we observe whether ministers from regions with a specific identity shape a distinctive sense of representation in the national executive, and whether this depends on how political parties and the party system articulate it. Borrowing from Pitkin’s four dimensions of political representation, we investiga…
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
Regional Ambassadors or State Agents? Assessing the Role of Catalan Cabinet Ministers in Spain
This study focuses on Catalan cabinet ministers in democratic Spain with a view to understanding what function they perform in the central government: regional ambassador or state agent? To this end, this analysis draws on a sub-dataset comprised of 22 Catalan cabinet ministers taken from a general pool of 220 cabinet ministers and 371 ministerial appointments from 1977 to 2021. Our findings demonstrate, first, that no Catalan cabinet minister ha…
The Asymmetrical Effect of Polarization on Support for Independence: The Case of Catalonia
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarization at the mass level in the centre-periphery dimension. We analyse the rapid rise in support for independence in Catalonia, focusing on the role of party competition around the centre-periphery cleavage. We argue that mainstream actors’ adoption of centrifugal party strategies with respect to the national question produced a polarizing dynamic in the party system that eventually caused vote…
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
A new political elite in Western Europe? The political careers of regional prime ministers in newly decentralised countries
Se han hecho más democráticos los partidos en España? La evolución en las reglas de elección del líder (1977-2008)
En este trabajo, los autores verifican si, entre 1977 y 2008, ha habido un aumento de la democracia interna en los principales partidos políticos españoles. Para ello, analizan el proceso de selección del líder, al tiempo que cuestionan si ha habido un incremento de la igualdad en la participación para elegirlo, favoreciendo sistemas representativos o de elección directa. El artículo plantea también la hipótesis de si el grado de igualdad en las …
Ministerial and Parliamentary Elites in Multilevel Spain 1977-2009
In decentralized European parliamentary democracies future governing elites often acquire political experience and attain top positions by passing through sub-national political institutions. In doing so, elites circumvent and reduce the importance of national parliaments. Previous research has advanced several explanations for this pattern: Europe's tradition of bureaucratic government; parties with open methods for selecting parliamentary candi…
The Carrot and the Stick: Party Regulation and Politics in Democratic Spain
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
Politicians, experts or both? Democratic delegation and junior ministers in Spain
Fast and Furious: Podemos’ Quest for Power in Multi-level Spain
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
Going National: Ciudadanos from Catalonia to Spain
Ciudadanos, a party founded in Catalonia in 2006, has recently acquired a major role in the Spanish political system. This article examines why it was formed almost ten years ago and how it has evolved since; its ideological principles and policy menu; the party organisation and leadership; the main determinants of its vote, and the structure of opportunities faced by the party in the 2015 general election. It considers Ciudadanos in two differen…
Reducing the gap between leaders and voters? Elite polarization, outbidding competition, and the rise of secessionism in Catalonia
The ethnic outbidding thesis explains party polarization as a consequence of political changes amongst voters. We argued instead that party elites' extreme position on the national identity cleavage can help polarizing strategies to prevail over moderate strategies in a context of increasing political uncertainty, without previous voters' polarization. We test successfully this hypothesis in Catalonia by analysing the polarization of political pa…
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain: A preliminary assessment
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Polarisation and Electoral Realignment: The Case of the Right-Wing Parties in Spain
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby support for the long-predominant Partido Popular has been eroded dramatically to the benefit of new challengers. Measuring ideological polarisation at the party system level and at the individual level, we show how the polarising strategy implemented by the liberal Ciu…
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
International audience
The Asymmetrical Effect of Polarization on Support for Independence: The Case of Catalonia
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarization at the mass level in the centre-periphery dimension. We analyse the rapid rise in support for independence in Catalonia, focusing on the role of party competition around the centre-periphery cleavage. We argue that mainstream actors’ adoption of centrifugal party strategies with respect to the national question produced a polarizing dynamic in the party system that eventually caused vote…
The triumph of partisanship: Political scientists in the public debate about Catalonia’s independence crisis (2010–2018)
Participation in the public debate constitutes one of the most evident avenues for political scientists to demonstrate the social relevance of the discipline. This article focuses on two questions: the types of roles political scientists adopt in their public interventions and the potential tensions between their public engagement and the epistemic norms regulating academic and research activities. We investigate these questions in the context of…
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
The Territorial Dimension of Ministerial Selection in Spain: Constrained Consociationalism under Majoritarian Cabinets
Although frequently depicted as a purely majoritarian system, the recruitment of executive elites in Spain is said to incorporate unofficial ‘quotas’ allowing the representation of territorial minorities. But does the selection of cabinet ministers in Spain produce consociational-like effects? This study aims to answer this question through a statistical model based on an original dataset of 223 cabinet ministers and 375 appointments from 1977 to…
Southern Europe Managing the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Crucial Effect of Timing
This article, which introduces a special issue, compares the record of five South European states – Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey – in managing the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Southern Europe’s reputation for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems all posed potential obstacles to an effective governmental response. However, despite these shared characteristics, these countries’ records in Covid…
The Limits of Power Concentration and Expert Knowledge in Emergency Management: Spain’s Government Response during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Focusing on the central government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis during the first wave in Spain, the article analyses the executive’s strategy of power concentration, and the factors that shape its implementation. We sketch how the crisis erupted, the main measures and strategies adopted by the national executive, the role of the experts, and the interaction with other political actors and institutions. We also explore the second phase and ho…
Regional Ambassadors or State Agents? Assessing the Role of Catalan Cabinet Ministers in Spain
This study focuses on Catalan cabinet ministers in democratic Spain with a view to understanding what function they perform in the central government: regional ambassador or state agent? To this end, this analysis draws on a sub-dataset comprised of 22 Catalan cabinet ministers taken from a general pool of 220 cabinet ministers and 371 ministerial appointments from 1977 to 2021. Our findings demonstrate, first, that no Catalan cabinet minister ha…
Interrogating regional territorial representation in post-democratic Spain
In this article, we examine the function of territorial representation by national cabinet ministers in multi-ethnic democracies. In particular, we observe whether ministers from regions with a specific identity shape a distinctive sense of representation in the national executive, and whether this depends on how political parties and the party system articulate it. Borrowing from Pitkin’s four dimensions of political representation, we investiga…
A dual summit of power? Career movements and multilevel circulation in the Spanish executive elite
Drawing from the literature on political ambition, this article examines whether politicians holding executive offices exhibit similar patterns of movement between different levels of government as parliamentary elites. It also tests the influence of various institutional and political variables typical of federal systems. Focusing on Spain, the study classifies career movements based on the initial position and the direction of advancement, anal…
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
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