RT Generic
T1 Regional Cleavage Influence towards Island Electoral Behavior: evidences from the Canaries
A1 Tuñón, Jorge
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Política y Gobernanza, 
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Ciencia Política y Sociología, 
AB The Canary Islands are a region with legislative capacities within theEuropean Union (EU). It has had always serious socio-economic deficits. Itsdistance to its political and geographical centers, its fragmentation and theweakness of its geographical neighbours highly remarked its Centre-Peripherycleavage towards both, Madrid and Brussels. Regarding to the regional/national cleavage (at political level mainly representedby the non-State wide parties), the Canary political framework has been large andvaried. Therefore, Canary politics presents so often insular parties, local ones,several large electoral coalitions and independent candidatures. Among thispolitical parties diversity, the Coalición Canaria (CC) birth (1993) and immediateelectoral 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 archfragmentation (only the left and the right-wing national parties, PSOE and PP, getsignificant records within the Archipelago) promoted the CC regional governmentleading majorities’ continuity during the last fifteen years.However, the regional coalition electoral decline has been progressive since it gotits top ballot boxes records in 1999 and 2000. How does then the regional/nationalcleavage influence the Islands voters? Has its importance decreased over the years?Does the centre-periphery issue variable influence equally Canary voter’s choiceswithin Local, Regional, National and European elections? How would it then bepossible to measure the Regional cleavage influence towards electoral behaviour inthe Canary Islands?The proposed exploratory research will be carried out through findings, mainlydue to the available Islands electoral records and its qualitative analysis methodinterpretation. Thus, the text will seek to analytically answer every above singleproposed question about how the Ultra-Peripheral (Regional) cleavage influencesboth, the political parties’ framework and the electoral behaviour in the CanaryIslands.
SN 1698-482X
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9261
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9261
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 3 jul. 2024