Transferring Power to Maintain Control: Decentralization as a National-Level Electoral Strategy in Western Europe

• In Event: Party Strategies and Political Geography

Brief Overview

Why do governing parties implement decentralization reforms? I find that decentralization is a strategy to bolster a party’s national-level electoral strength, by appeasing voters of threatening ethnoterritorial parties in national elections.

Author

• Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester