Regional and National Elections in Western Europe

Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result of rigorous and in-depth country studies, this book challenges the popular second-order model and presents an innovative framework to study regional voting patterns.

Linda Berg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Yosef Bhatti, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Daniel Bochsler, University of Zurich, Switzerland Laura Cabeza Perez, Spanish National Research Council Fabien Escalona Braulio Gómez Fortes, Institute of Governance Tore Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, UK Marcelo Jenny, University of Vienna, Austria Simon Labouret, Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble Emanuele Massetti, University of Sussex, UK Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh, UK Alia Middleton, University of Edinburgh, UK Henrik E. Oscarsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Lawrence E. Rose, University of Oslo, Norway Giulia Sandri, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Stavros Skrinis, Panteion University Athens, Greece Mathieu Vieira, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Wasserfallen, University of Zurich, Switzerland Sune Welling Hansen, Danish Institute of Governmental Research