Bottoms up: How subnational elections predict parties’ decisions to run in presidential elections in Europe and Latin America
Do parties’ experiences in subnational elections predict when parties enter national competition and compete for the presidency? Building upon the party nationalization literature, we argue that a party’s presence in elections across subnational units and its subsequent performance in these election...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-08-01
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Series: | Research & Politics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015602039 |