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100	1		_aBRANCATI, Dawn _934076
245	1	0	_aThe Origins and Strengths of Regional Parties
260			_aCambridge, UK : _bCambridge University Press, _cJanuary 2008
520	3		_aTraditional explanations of the origins of regional parties as the products of regionally-based social cleavages cannot fully account for the variation in regional party strength both within and across countries. This unexplained variance can be explained, however, by looking at institutions, and in particular, political decentralization. This argument is tested with a statistical analysis of thirty-seven democracies around the world from 1945 to 2002. The analysis shows that political decentralization increases the strength of regional parties in national legislatures, independent of the strength of regional cleavages, as well as of various features of a country's political system, such as fiscal decentralization, presidentialism, electoral proportionality, cross-regional voting laws and the sequencing of executive and legislative elections
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g38, 1, p. 135-160 _dCambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, January 2008 _xISSN 0007-1234 _w
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c26213 _d26213
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