El efecto electoral de la coalición de la izquierda radical española para las elecciones generales de 2016. Un análisis cuasiexperimental con datos de encuestas

  1. Gago Rivas, Víctor 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

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Journal:
Revista internacional de sociología

ISSN: 0034-9712

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 81

Issue: 3

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3989/RIS.2023.81.3.22.00660 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The effects of electoral coalitions on electoral behaviour remain an unexplored field in political sociology. There are hardly any studies that analyse the effects of the transition from electoral confrontation to pre-electoral collaboration. Our research focuses on the Spanish case, analysing the effect of the formalisation of the coalition between Izquierda Unida and Podemos for the 2016 general elections, after competing in the 2015 elections. Taking advantage of the fact that the coalition was announced while a pre-election survey was being carried out, we study the effect of this announcement through a quasi-experimental design. We also analysed the factors that would be behind the decision not to vote for the reference party in coalition. We found that it was the minority partner’s voters who defected from following their coalition party and the importance in this decision of the valuation of coalition leaders, partisan sympathy and political closeness to challenger parties.

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