Publication: Regional Cleavage Influence towards Island Electoral Behavior: evidences from the Canaries
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2010
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The Canary Islands are a region with legislative capacities within the
European Union (EU). It has had always serious socio-economic deficits. Its
distance to its political and geographical centers, its fragmentation and the
weakness of its geographical neighbours highly remarked its Centre-Periphery
cleavage towards both, Madrid and Brussels. Regarding to the regional/national cleavage (at political level mainly represented
by the non-State wide parties), the Canary political framework has been large and
varied. Therefore, Canary politics presents so often insular parties, local ones,
several large electoral coalitions and independent candidatures. Among this
political parties diversity, the Coalición Canaria (CC) birth (1993) and immediate
electoral success and regional government performance (until nowadays),
represents the main issue of the contemporary Canary nationalism (Tuñón, 2008b).
The specific Archipelago electoral regulations and the lack of regional political arch
fragmentation (only the left and the right-wing national parties, PSOE and PP, get
significant records within the Archipelago) promoted the CC regional government
leading majorities’ continuity during the last fifteen years.
However, the regional coalition electoral decline has been progressive since it got
its top ballot boxes records in 1999 and 2000. How does then the regional/national
cleavage influence the Islands voters? Has its importance decreased over the years?
Does the centre-periphery issue variable influence equally Canary voter’s choices
within Local, Regional, National and European elections? How would it then be
possible to measure the Regional cleavage influence towards electoral behaviour in
the Canary Islands?
The proposed exploratory research will be carried out through findings, mainly
due to the available Islands electoral records and its qualitative analysis method
interpretation. Thus, the text will seek to analytically answer every above single
proposed question about how the Ultra-Peripheral (Regional) cleavage influences
both, the political parties’ framework and the electoral behaviour in the Canary
Islands.
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Canary Islands, Regional cleavage, Electoral behaviour, Dual voting