Devolved Disagreements and Electoral Success: How intra-party disagreements over regional issues influences parties’ election success

• In Event: Comparative Regionalism in Europe

Brief Overview

We propose that parties incapable of managing internal consensus on devolution attract less electoral support from regions with distinct independence movements. We test hypotheses using supervised machine learning estimates of positions in the UK.

Authors

• Zachary David Greene, University of Strathclyde

• Alberto de Leon Concepcion, University of Strathclyde