Voting for Parties or for Candidates? The Trade-Off Between Party and Personal Representation in Spanish Regional and Local Elections
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| contents | Voting for Parties or for Candidates? The Trade-Off Between Party and Personal Representation in Spanish Regional and Local Elections Pablo Barberá Sociología Ideology Candidates Electoral Systems Electoral Behavior Political Representation When voters cast their ballot, are they choosing a candidate or a party? Electoral systems have a significant impact on how this question is answered in each country. As previous literature has shown, some electoral rules foster a more personal representation, while others strengthen the intermediary role of parties. In this paper I maintain that there exists a trade-off between these two types of representation. To empirically verify its existence and how it works, I have chosen local and regional elections in Spain as a case study. Given that they take place simultaneously under similar electoral systems, they can be considered a natural experiment for the study of this trade-off, which allows me to overcome the potential problems of endogeneity present in previous studies. By measuring the significance of ideological closeness and candidate evaluations in voters¿ decisions at each level, it is shown that the importance of personal representation increases in local elections at the expense of a less frequent use of ideological proximity as an informational shortcut, thus confirming the existence of the trade-off. 2010 artículo científico 0210-5233 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=99720394002 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=997 REIS. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas application/pdf Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas REIS. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (España) Num.132 |
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| spellingShingle | Voting for Parties or for Candidates? The Trade-Off Between Party and Personal Representation in Spanish Regional and Local Elections Pablo Barberá Sociología Ideology Candidates Electoral Systems Electoral Behavior Political Representation Voting for Parties or for Candidates? The Trade-Off Between Party and Personal Representation in Spanish Regional and Local Elections Pablo Barberá Sociología Ideology Candidates Electoral Systems Electoral Behavior Political Representation When voters cast their ballot, are they choosing a candidate or a party? Electoral systems have a significant impact on how this question is answered in each country. As previous literature has shown, some electoral rules foster a more personal representation, while others strengthen the intermediary role of parties. In this paper I maintain that there exists a trade-off between these two types of representation. To empirically verify its existence and how it works, I have chosen local and regional elections in Spain as a case study. Given that they take place simultaneously under similar electoral systems, they can be considered a natural experiment for the study of this trade-off, which allows me to overcome the potential problems of endogeneity present in previous studies. By measuring the significance of ideological closeness and candidate evaluations in voters¿ decisions at each level, it is shown that the importance of personal representation increases in local elections at the expense of a less frequent use of ideological proximity as an informational shortcut, thus confirming the existence of the trade-off. 2010 artículo científico 0210-5233 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=99720394002 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=997 REIS. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas application/pdf Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas REIS. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (España) Num.132 |
| title | Voting for Parties or for Candidates? The Trade-Off Between Party and Personal Representation in Spanish Regional and Local Elections |
| topic | Sociología Ideology Candidates Electoral Systems Electoral Behavior Political Representation |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=99720394002 |