Electoral decentralisation with weak parties. Analysis of Colombia’s subnational elections

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Regional and Federal Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI:10.1080/13597566.2022.2028279

Juan Pablo Milanese, Juan Albarracín

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this report, we analyse subnational electoral dynamics, reviewing some temporal patterns of both municipal and departmental elections in Colombia; however, we focus particularly on the most recent elections in 2019. Local and regional electoral dynamics are significantly decoupled from national politics and, despite the existence of the same party labels across all levels of government, we show that political parties are secondary actors in subnational elections whose central purpose is to satisfy legal requirements for candidate nomination. Leaders of political machines and other regional or local political organizations are the centre of subnational electoral politics. Therefore, parties are not the appropriate units of analysis to understand electoral (or post-electoral) subnational politics. In contrast, coalitions of variable composition that transcend parties shape processes of political cooperation and competition in local and regional electoral politics.

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软弱政党的选举权力下放。哥伦比亚地方选举分析

摘要在本报告中，我们分析了国家以下各级的选举动态，回顾了哥伦比亚市政和部门选举的一些时间模式；然而，我们特别关注2019年的最新选举。地方和地区选举动态与国家政治明显脱钩，尽管各级政府都存在相同的政党标签，但我们表明，政党是国家以下选举的次要参与者，其核心目的是满足候选人提名的法律要求。政治机器和其他区域或地方政治组织的领导人是国家以下选举政治的中心。因此，政党不是了解选举（或选举后）国家以下政治的适当分析单位。相比之下，超越政党的可变组成联盟形成了地方和地区选举政治中的政治合作和竞争过程。

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Regional and Federal Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.80

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21.40%

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