Voting differently across electoral arenas

Empirical implications from a decentralized democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID6299484
AuthorsPedro Riera (0000-0001-5315-0350, European University Institute, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume34
Issue5
Pages561-581
Publication date2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192512112467216
OpenAlexW2157015610
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited38

This article assesses the validity of several alternative hypotheses explaining dual voting across electoral arenas in a decentralized polity. Based on data from three different electoral cycles in Catalonia, I find evidence that the evaluation of the regional candidates of the two main parties has the largest, most consistent impact on vote transfers between levels of government. Results also emphasize, although to a lesser extent, the role played by retrospective voting at the regional level and the impacts that government performance and approval levels regarding national leaders have on the likelihood of casting a dual vote. Altogether, these results not only speak to the dual-voting literature, but also to broader research on the consequences of the de-alignment of the electorate in advanced industrial democracies

Democracy · Disapproval voting · Dual (grammatical number · Economics · Empirical research · First-past-the-post voting · Government (linguistics · Instant-runoff voting · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Public economics · Ranked voting system · Straight-ticket voting · Voting · Voting behavior · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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