Descentralización y voto económico en España

• Autores: Ignacio Lago Peñas , Santiago Lago Peñas
• Localización: REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, ISSN 0210-5233, Nº 136, 2011, págs. 111-126
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5477/cis/reis.136.111
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Decentralization and Economic Voting in Spain
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  • español

    En este artículo se analiza el voto económico en contextos descentralizados. La existencia de varias arenas de competición política abre la puerta a los procesos de contaminación electoral vertical, lo que implica que los electores no juzguen de forma independiente la actuación de gobiernos nacionales y regionales. Con datos para España en el período 1982-2008, se comprueba que la contaminación electoral tiene lugar desde la arena nacional a la regional, y no al revés. No obstante, esta contaminación electoral tiende a disminuir a medida que se avanza en el proceso de descentralización.

  • English

    This paper analyzes economic voting in decentralized contexts. The existence of several arenas of political competition allows for the appearance of vertical electoral contamination processes, implying that voters do not evaluate the performance of national and regional governments independently. Using the case of Spain in the period 1982-2008, it is demonstrated that this electoral contamination spreads from the national arena to the regional one, and not the other way round. However, electoral contamination tends to diminish as the process of decentralization takes place over time.

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