{"title":"National political parties or regional movements? The case of Peru’s 2018 regional elections","authors":"M. Haman, M. Školník","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2023.2195639","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This report focuses on Peru’s 2018 regional elections. It analyzes the election results from two perspectives. First, it examines how these elections fit the characteristics of second-order elections. Second, it discusses regional movements and their institutionalization. Although the concept of second-order elections expects these elections to have lower turnout and more invalid votes, this has not happened in Peru’s regional elections: the number of invalid votes in the regional elections is considerably lower than in national congressional elections. However, the assumption that voters punish the ruling parties and vote for smaller parties in these elections was fulfilled. In the elections, the major national parties completely failed, and regional movements celebrated significant successes, winning 15 of the 25 regions. However, the report shows that successful regional movements are not strongly institutionalized in the regional party systems.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Regional and Federal Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2023.2195639","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This report focuses on Peru’s 2018 regional elections. It analyzes the election results from two perspectives. First, it examines how these elections fit the characteristics of second-order elections. Second, it discusses regional movements and their institutionalization. Although the concept of second-order elections expects these elections to have lower turnout and more invalid votes, this has not happened in Peru’s regional elections: the number of invalid votes in the regional elections is considerably lower than in national congressional elections. However, the assumption that voters punish the ruling parties and vote for smaller parties in these elections was fulfilled. In the elections, the major national parties completely failed, and regional movements celebrated significant successes, winning 15 of the 25 regions. However, the report shows that successful regional movements are not strongly institutionalized in the regional party systems.
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The upsurge of academic and political interest in regional and federal questions since the 1980s has been stimulated by the salience of regions in EU policy-making and the Structural Funds but also by regionalization and federalization processes in many Western states. The most striking example is the devolution occurring in the UK, but the process is at work all over Europe and in other parts of the world. These developments have led to many important research programmes and projects. Regional and Federal Studies is a refereed social science journal which provides an academic forum for the publication of international research on these issues. It is essential reading for both academics and practitioners in politics, administration and the business world.
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