The evolution of substate nationalist parties as statewide parliamentary actors: CIU and PNV in Spain

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 121-141

  Field, Bonnie N ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

SPAIN;

EID: 84954227019     PISSN: 13537113     EISSN: 15572986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2015.1003493     Document Type: Article

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33. The combination of these conceptualizations builds on Anwen Elias, Edina Szöcsik, and Christina Isabel Zuber, “Conceptualising Party Strategies in Two-Dimensional Space” (Unpublished manuscript, 2014).
34. Amaiur also won a seat in the province of Navarre.
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36. Spain’s electoral districts for the Congress of Deputies overwhelmingly correspond to the provinces, a territorial unit that is typically smaller than the region (autonomous community).
37. This is calculated as the aggregate number of votes of all districts, not in each district individually.
38. See previous Note 18.
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42. There have been no votes of confidence or censure in the post-1993 period.
43. If that hurdle is not met, another candidate is proposed and the process begins again. If after two months no candidate is elected, then new parliamentary elections are held.
44. Calculated by the author based on Congress of Deputies’ vote records.
45. Investiture votes are from the Congress of Deputies’ published records.
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47. I sincerely thank Sonia Alonso for recalculating and sharing the data with me.
48. Alonso, Challenging the State, 66–69.
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50. Field, “Minority Parliamentary Government,” 30.
51. See Crameri, this issue.