Local Electoral Participation in Europe
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-50905-6 (ISBN)
While electoral participation is a traditional topic in political science, voter turnout at the local level is still largely uncharted. There are very few large-N comparative works on municipal turnout and, as a result, a lack of a comprehensive comparative picture of local electoral participation. This book aims to fill that gap by taking an innovative approach to the topic. The volume makes three major advances at the empirical, methodological and theoretical levels. Empirically, it provides a large-N comparison by covering 18 European countries and more than 70,000 municipalities. Methodologically, the book uses the multi-level congruence theory to study municipal turnout in relation to national turnout, exploring the variation between those levels. Theoretically, it bridges the two main (and often mutually exclusive) strands in the literature on local elections - the lower-rank and different-kind approaches - and it assesses the features and mechanisms of local voting.
Silvia Bolgherini is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Perugia (Italy). Her research interests include electoral studies, comparative political systems, local government. She has widely published on international journals on these topics. Publication with Palgrave Macmillan (with F. Grotz) Germany after the Grand Coalition (2010).
Selena Grimaldi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Macerata (Italy). Her research interests include presidential studies, electoral studies, comparative political systems, local elites. Publication with Palgrave Macmillan The Informal Powers of Western European Presidents: Destined to Weakness? (2023).
Aldo Paparo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of University of Florence (Italy). His main areas of interest are elections and voting behavior with a particular focus on the local level. His research appears in Political Psychology, West European Politics, Electoral Studies, South European Society and Politics, Local Government Studies, Italian Political Science Review.
Chapter 1: Electoral turnout: the challenge at the local level.- Chapter 2: Between national and municipal: The European map of municipal electoral participation.- Chapter 3: What drives municipal-national differences in turnout? Towards a compounded explanation.- Chapter 4: Conclusion: what about local turnout?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XV, 125 p. 27 illus., 21 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 319 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Schlagworte | Comparative electoral behaviour • Local electoral participation • Localization of the vote • second-order elections • Turnout determinants • Turnout gap between municipal and national elections |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-50905-6 / 3031509056 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-50905-6 / 9783031509056 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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