Looking for two-sided coattail effects: Integrated parties and multilevel elections in the U.S.
The following is a guest post by Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga & H. Ege Ozen. Amuitz and Ege are Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. This post is based on an article of the same name, which is forthcoming in Electoral Studies. Multilevel structures of government are spreading all around the world but we still know little regarding the relation between tiers of subnational, national and supranational institutions. We have recently published an article in which we delve into this matter by analyzing how and to what extent is the federal structure in the United States incorporated into individual Continue reading Looking for two-sided coattail effects: Integrated parties and multilevel elections in the U.S.