Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The British and Spanish Statewide Parties Compared
Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The British and Spanish Statewide Parties Compared
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权力下放和政党组织变革：英国和西班牙全州政党的比较
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2009
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Mónica Méndez Lago
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Elodie Fabre;Mónica Méndez Lago
正如在导言中所解释的那样，政党竞争的几个层次的存在对全州的政党来说是一个特殊的挑战。一方面，他们必须为全州范围的选举提出政策纲领，旨在吸引全州的支持，并捍卫某种形式的“国家或全州利益”;另一方面，地区选举为地区问题创造了更多的空间。这些政党面临的战略困境是，必须在全州选举中争取全体选民，在地区选举中争取该选民的地区部分。此外，在西班牙和英国等多民族国家，全州范围的政党正在与少数民族主义或民族地区主义政党竞争，这些政党将领土问题政治化，并倾向于强调其地区与中央关系的冲突方面。地域差异增加了中央和区域一级政策分歧的可能性。
As explained in the Introduction, the existence of several levels of party competition represents a particular challenge for statewide parties. On the one hand, they must present policy platforms for statewide elections aimed at attracting support from across the state and defending some version of the ‘national or statewide interest’; on the other hand, regional elections create more space for regional issues. These parties are confronted with the strategic dilemma of having to compete to appeal to the whole electorate in statewide elections and to regional sections of this electorate in regional elections. In multinational countries such as Spain and the UK, statewide parties are, moreover, competing against minority nationalist or ethno-regionalist parties which politicize territorial issues and tend to emphasize the conflicting aspect of their region’s relations with the centre. Territorial differences increase the odds of policy divergence between the central and regional levels.