Sonia Alonso Sáenz De Oger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Alonso Sáenz De Oger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia Alonso Sáenz |
| FAMILY NAME | De Oger |
| SIGNATURE | DE OGER S A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5094-6078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set – Addendum
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La duración en el poder y el rendimiento electoral de los partidos nacionalistas gobernantes ¿la ventaja competitiva del nacionalismo
Este trabajo se pregunta si el hecho de apelar a identidades supuestamente primordiales, y por tanto fuertemente arraigadas y estables, ha aportado a los partidos nacionalistas alguna ventaja competitiva a lo largo del tiempo frente a otros partidos políticos basados en otras identidades, como las de clase o las religiosas. Para ello, el trabajo compara los partidos nacionalistas y no nacionalistas de los gobiernos regionales de Canadá, Dinamarca…
Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure political parties’ preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender positions in decentralized Spain. Using data collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, which for the first time has incorporated a fully fledged gender domain into its coding schem…
EU intervention vs. national autonomy: Do citizens really care
Conventional wisdom about the European sovereign debt crisis and its handling defends that fiscal austerity is unpopular and that external conditionality and/or imposition on national democracies generates backlash. However, not enough research has addressed this question: How willing are citizens to accept unpopular policies imposed on their national governments by European institutions? Would they object to unpopular policies less if these were…
VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’…
The costs of responsibility for the political establishment of the Eurozone (1999–2015)
The objective of this article is to analyse the costs of responsible governance on the national political establishment of the Eurozone in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Our analysis tests two main hypotheses. First, we argue that financial crises like the one unleashed by the global financial meltdown of 2008 have an asymmetric impact on the electoral records of establishment parties depending on whether the countries affecte…
Democratic regeneration in European peripheral regions: New Politics for the Territory
Scholarly research on the emergence of a new politics agenda of democratic regeneration, driven by the electoral growth of challenger parties, has focused the analysis primarily at the national and supranational levels, leaving the subnational level underexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap through a comparative analysis of party competition in peripheral regions of Italy, Spain and Great Britain during the European Great Recess…
Democracy without choice: Citizens’ perceptions of government autonomy during the Eurozone crisis
In this article it is argued that citizens take into account the degree of a government's political autonomy to implement particular policies when expressing their views on satisfaction with democracy (SWD) but, in order to do so, they need to perceive it. When citizens directly observe the external constraints that reduce their government's autonomy, then variations in levels of regime satisfaction may no longer be exclusively about government p…
How National Parties Nationalize Regional Elections: The Case of Spain
This article demonstrates that regional branches of national parties do not limit regional election campaigns to regional issues. On the contrary, they nationalize regional elections (i.e., emphasize national-level issues in regional campaigns) as an electoral strategy to win votes. The empirical evidence comes from the quantitative content analysis of regional-level manifestos of the two main national parties in Spain, PP, and PSOE, between 1998…
What Type of Democratic Commitment Lies Behind the Importance of Living in a Democracy?
In this chapter I look at the question "How important is it for you to live in a country that is governed democratically?" as it appears in Round 6 of the European Social Survey. The first objective of this chapter is to analyze whether this indicator really measures commitment to the principles of liberal representative democracy. In this respect, the analysis shows, first, that the importance of living in a democracy is not a valid indicator of…
Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections
Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical Right
Although there is growing research interest in populist radical right (PRR) parties in Western Europe, little attention has been paid to the case of Spain - a country where these parties are almost non-existent or irrelevant from an electoral and politic
Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: Evidence from Spain and Great Britain
This article has two objectives. Firstly, we test the theoretical assumptions about the repertoire of party strategies in a two-dimensional political space presented in the introduction to this special issue. We use a new dataset that content-analyzes electoral parties’ manifestos for regional elections in Spain and Great Britain (the Regional Manifestos Project) in order to see how well the theoretically-derived strategies approximate what parti…
«Votas, pero no eliges»: La democracia y la crisis de la deuda soberana en la eurozona
El objetivo de este capítulo es analizar el presunto despliegue de la «democracia sin alternativas» en Europa y sus consecuencias para la calidad de las democracias nacionales, especialmente las de la periferia de la zona euro –giips: Grecia, Irlanda, Italia, Portugal y España. El argumento principal es que la falta de receptividad de los gobiernos nacionales de los países giips hacia los deseos de sus ciudadanos constituye el reverso de la moned…
Measuring Centre–Periphery Preferences: The Regional Manifestos Project
We propose a methodology for measuring political parties' centre–periphery preferences and positions. The proposal is based on an extension of the Manifesto Project's methodology that allows us to analyse manifestos in multi-level settings (i.e. manifestos written for sub- and supra-state electoral arenas). This adaptation requires extending the Manifesto classification scheme to include territorial preferences together with policy preferences sp…
Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility: A Comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Immigration, left and right
Using data from the Comparative Manifestos Project, we compare the policy positions of left and right parties with regard to immigration across 18 West European countries between 1975 and 2005. We test two main hypotheses: First, we expect that mainstream parties will exploit anti-immigrant sentiments in the electorate regardless of extreme right competition. This would indicate that the extreme Right is not the only driving force behind the rece…
La duración en el poder y el rendimiento electoral de los partidos nacionalistas gobernantes: La ventaja competitiva del nacionalismo? (Duration in Office and the Electoral Performance of Incumbent Na…
Electoral support for ethno-nationalist parties is based on the mobilisation of ethnic and cultural identities, which are generally understood to be primordial and, therefore, deeply rooted and highly stable. This paper poses the following question: to what extent do ethnic or national identities provide nationalist parties with a competitive advantage with regard to other parties, based on other types of allegiance, such as class or religion? In…
Political representation and ethnic conflict in new democracies
This article is an exploratory analysis of the efficacy of parliamentary representation as a means to moderate ethnic conflict in new democracies. The authors agree with many others that the interests of a minority ethnic group are better protected when the group has access to decision makers, can block harmful government policies and veto potentially damaging decisions. Parliamentary representation, however, does not always allow for an effectiv…
Immigration, left and right
Using data from the Comparative Manifestos Project, we compare the policy positions of left and right parties with regard to immigration across 18 West European countries between 1975 and 2005. We test two main hypotheses: First, we expect that mainstream parties will exploit anti-immigrant sentiments in the electorate regardless of extreme right competition. This would indicate that the extreme Right is not the only driving force behind the rece…
Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical Right
Although there is growing research interest in populist radical right (PRR) parties in Western Europe, little attention has been paid to the case of Spain - a country where these parties are almost non-existent or irrelevant from an electoral and politic
Democracy without choice: Citizens’ perceptions of government autonomy during the Eurozone crisis
In this article it is argued that citizens take into account the degree of a government's political autonomy to implement particular policies when expressing their views on satisfaction with democracy (SWD) but, in order to do so, they need to perceive it. When citizens directly observe the external constraints that reduce their government's autonomy, then variations in levels of regime satisfaction may no longer be exclusively about government p…
Political representation and ethnic conflict in new democracies
This article is an exploratory analysis of the efficacy of parliamentary representation as a means to moderate ethnic conflict in new democracies. The authors agree with many others that the interests of a minority ethnic group are better protected when the group has access to decision makers, can block harmful government policies and veto potentially damaging decisions. Parliamentary representation, however, does not always allow for an effectiv…
Measuring Centre–Periphery Preferences: The Regional Manifestos Project
We propose a methodology for measuring political parties' centre–periphery preferences and positions. The proposal is based on an extension of the Manifesto Project's methodology that allows us to analyse manifestos in multi-level settings (i.e. manifestos written for sub- and supra-state electoral arenas). This adaptation requires extending the Manifesto classification scheme to include territorial preferences together with policy preferences sp…
Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: Evidence from Spain and Great Britain
This article has two objectives. Firstly, we test the theoretical assumptions about the repertoire of party strategies in a two-dimensional political space presented in the introduction to this special issue. We use a new dataset that content-analyzes electoral parties’ manifestos for regional elections in Spain and Great Britain (the Regional Manifestos Project) in order to see how well the theoretically-derived strategies approximate what parti…
How National Parties Nationalize Regional Elections: The Case of Spain
This article demonstrates that regional branches of national parties do not limit regional election campaigns to regional issues. On the contrary, they nationalize regional elections (i.e., emphasize national-level issues in regional campaigns) as an electoral strategy to win votes. The empirical evidence comes from the quantitative content analysis of regional-level manifestos of the two main national parties in Spain, PP, and PSOE, between 1998…
The costs of responsibility for the political establishment of the Eurozone (1999–2015)
The objective of this article is to analyse the costs of responsible governance on the national political establishment of the Eurozone in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Our analysis tests two main hypotheses. First, we argue that financial crises like the one unleashed by the global financial meltdown of 2008 have an asymmetric impact on the electoral records of establishment parties depending on whether the countries affecte…
Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure political parties’ preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender positions in decentralized Spain. Using data collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, which for the first time has incorporated a fully fledged gender domain into its coding schem…
VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’…
Democratic regeneration in European peripheral regions: New Politics for the Territory
Scholarly research on the emergence of a new politics agenda of democratic regeneration, driven by the electoral growth of challenger parties, has focused the analysis primarily at the national and supranational levels, leaving the subnational level underexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap through a comparative analysis of party competition in peripheral regions of Italy, Spain and Great Britain during the European Great Recess…
Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections
EU intervention vs. national autonomy: Do citizens really care
Conventional wisdom about the European sovereign debt crisis and its handling defends that fiscal austerity is unpopular and that external conditionality and/or imposition on national democracies generates backlash. However, not enough research has addressed this question: How willing are citizens to accept unpopular policies imposed on their national governments by European institutions? Would they object to unpopular policies less if these were…
Political representation and ethnic conflict in new democracies
This article is an exploratory analysis of the efficacy of parliamentary representation as a means to moderate ethnic conflict in new democracies. The authors agree with many others that the interests of a minority ethnic group are better protected when the group has access to decision makers, can block harmful government policies and veto potentially damaging decisions. Parliamentary representation, however, does not always allow for an effectiv…
La duración en el poder y el rendimiento electoral de los partidos nacionalistas gobernantes: La ventaja competitiva del nacionalismo? (Duration in Office and the Electoral Performance of Incumbent Na…
Electoral support for ethno-nationalist parties is based on the mobilisation of ethnic and cultural identities, which are generally understood to be primordial and, therefore, deeply rooted and highly stable. This paper poses the following question: to what extent do ethnic or national identities provide nationalist parties with a competitive advantage with regard to other parties, based on other types of allegiance, such as class or religion? In…
Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility: A Comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Immigration, left and right
Using data from the Comparative Manifestos Project, we compare the policy positions of left and right parties with regard to immigration across 18 West European countries between 1975 and 2005. We test two main hypotheses: First, we expect that mainstream parties will exploit anti-immigrant sentiments in the electorate regardless of extreme right competition. This would indicate that the extreme Right is not the only driving force behind the rece…
Measuring Centre–Periphery Preferences: The Regional Manifestos Project
We propose a methodology for measuring political parties' centre–periphery preferences and positions. The proposal is based on an extension of the Manifesto Project's methodology that allows us to analyse manifestos in multi-level settings (i.e. manifestos written for sub- and supra-state electoral arenas). This adaptation requires extending the Manifesto classification scheme to include territorial preferences together with policy preferences sp…
«Votas, pero no eliges»: La democracia y la crisis de la deuda soberana en la eurozona
El objetivo de este capítulo es analizar el presunto despliegue de la «democracia sin alternativas» en Europa y sus consecuencias para la calidad de las democracias nacionales, especialmente las de la periferia de la zona euro –giips: Grecia, Irlanda, Italia, Portugal y España. El argumento principal es que la falta de receptividad de los gobiernos nacionales de los países giips hacia los deseos de sus ciudadanos constituye el reverso de la moned…
Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections
Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical Right
Although there is growing research interest in populist radical right (PRR) parties in Western Europe, little attention has been paid to the case of Spain - a country where these parties are almost non-existent or irrelevant from an electoral and politic
Parties’ electoral strategies in a two-dimensional political space: Evidence from Spain and Great Britain
This article has two objectives. Firstly, we test the theoretical assumptions about the repertoire of party strategies in a two-dimensional political space presented in the introduction to this special issue. We use a new dataset that content-analyzes electoral parties’ manifestos for regional elections in Spain and Great Britain (the Regional Manifestos Project) in order to see how well the theoretically-derived strategies approximate what parti…
What Type of Democratic Commitment Lies Behind the Importance of Living in a Democracy?
In this chapter I look at the question "How important is it for you to live in a country that is governed democratically?" as it appears in Round 6 of the European Social Survey. The first objective of this chapter is to analyze whether this indicator really measures commitment to the principles of liberal representative democracy. In this respect, the analysis shows, first, that the importance of living in a democracy is not a valid indicator of…
Democratic regeneration in European peripheral regions: New Politics for the Territory
Scholarly research on the emergence of a new politics agenda of democratic regeneration, driven by the electoral growth of challenger parties, has focused the analysis primarily at the national and supranational levels, leaving the subnational level underexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap through a comparative analysis of party competition in peripheral regions of Italy, Spain and Great Britain during the European Great Recess…
Democracy without choice: Citizens’ perceptions of government autonomy during the Eurozone crisis
In this article it is argued that citizens take into account the degree of a government's political autonomy to implement particular policies when expressing their views on satisfaction with democracy (SWD) but, in order to do so, they need to perceive it. When citizens directly observe the external constraints that reduce their government's autonomy, then variations in levels of regime satisfaction may no longer be exclusively about government p…
How National Parties Nationalize Regional Elections: The Case of Spain
This article demonstrates that regional branches of national parties do not limit regional election campaigns to regional issues. On the contrary, they nationalize regional elections (i.e., emphasize national-level issues in regional campaigns) as an electoral strategy to win votes. The empirical evidence comes from the quantitative content analysis of regional-level manifestos of the two main national parties in Spain, PP, and PSOE, between 1998…
The costs of responsibility for the political establishment of the Eurozone (1999–2015)
The objective of this article is to analyse the costs of responsible governance on the national political establishment of the Eurozone in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Our analysis tests two main hypotheses. First, we argue that financial crises like the one unleashed by the global financial meltdown of 2008 have an asymmetric impact on the electoral records of establishment parties depending on whether the countries affecte…
VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’…
EU intervention vs. national autonomy: Do citizens really care
Conventional wisdom about the European sovereign debt crisis and its handling defends that fiscal austerity is unpopular and that external conditionality and/or imposition on national democracies generates backlash. However, not enough research has addressed this question: How willing are citizens to accept unpopular policies imposed on their national governments by European institutions? Would they object to unpopular policies less if these were…
Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure political parties’ preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender positions in decentralized Spain. Using data collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, which for the first time has incorporated a fully fledged gender domain into its coding schem…
Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set – Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
La duración en el poder y el rendimiento electoral de los partidos nacionalistas gobernantes ¿la ventaja competitiva del nacionalismo
Este trabajo se pregunta si el hecho de apelar a identidades supuestamente primordiales, y por tanto fuertemente arraigadas y estables, ha aportado a los partidos nacionalistas alguna ventaja competitiva a lo largo del tiempo frente a otros partidos políticos basados en otras identidades, como las de clase o las religiosas. Para ello, el trabajo compara los partidos nacionalistas y no nacionalistas de los gobiernos regionales de Canadá, Dinamarca…
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