Taking Stock of Local and Regional Electoral Behaviour: When is Sub-National Voting NOT About National Politics?

Abstract

The number of local and regional elections have increased considerably since the 1990s. The objective of this Panel is to share findings regarding the conditions under which voting in regional and local elections is NOT about national politics. This Panel will bring together scholars working on regional and local election survey data as well as election data disaggregated to the local and regional levels. Both groups of scholars tend to take up similar kind of questions but do not communicate much with each other. We will discuss papers that present empirical findings based on local and/or regional election data and analyses may be based on a single election or elections held across several territories and may concern legislative or executive elections.

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