Scott Morgenstern

Are Politics Local?

The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization Around the World

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks: are politics local? Why? Where? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781108400343
• ISBN-10: 1108400345
• Artikelnr.: 52613884

Autorenporträt

Scott Morgenstern is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in the United States and Latin America's Southern Cone (Cambridge, 2004) and the co-editor of Legislative Politics in Latin America, (Cambridge, 2002), Pathways to Power (2008), and Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective (2017). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Describing, Measuring, and Comparing the Two Dimensions: 1.
Dimensions of party nationalization: static and dynamic; 2. A typology of
party nationalization; 3. Measuring static and dynamic nationalization; 4.
Applying the model: patterns of static and dynamic nationalization; Part
II. Explaining Party Nationalization; 5. Explaining static and dynamic
nationalization; 6. Institutions, ethnic heterogeneity and party
nationalization: a statistical analysis; Part III. Implications:
Nationalization as an Explanatory Variable: 7. Regionalism, accountability,
and party nationalization; 8. The role of party nationalization on party
unity and retrospective voting; 9. The role of party nationalization on
collective action and dissent among co-partisan legislators: roll call
voting and bill co-sponsorship; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. Summary and
Conclusions.