El cambio institucional en un Estado Compuesto y su relación con los cambios en la distribución de poder al interior de los partidos políticos
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Jordana, Jacint
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Betanzo de la Rosa, A. El cambio institucional en un Estado Compuesto y su relación con los cambios en la distribución de poder al interior de los partidos políticos. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2011. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/52303
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Programa de doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials
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La actividad de investigación de este estudio doctoral se condensa en los tres artículos que aquí se presentan. Cada texto, desde una lógica de análisis distinta, hace una exploración tanto teórica como empírica de la relación existente entre dos grupos de variables y sus distintas direcciones de causalidad: la distribución territorial de recursos y competencias al interior del Estado compuesto, y la distribución territorial del poder al interior de los partidos políticos que ahí operan. El primer artículo apunta a comprender cuáles son los factores partidistas que facilitan la conciliación de intereses entre gobiernos que comparten una misma etiqueta partidista. El segundo, analiza cuál es el efecto que pueden tener los cambios en la estructura territorial del Estado, y en particular su descentralización, sobre los cambios que experimentan los partidos políticos. Finalmente, el tercero, apunta a tener una mejor comprensión sobre los efectos que pueden tener los cambios en los equilibrios de poder al interior de los partidos políticos sobre el nivel de interés que tiene cada una de estas organizaciones para promover cambios en el modelo de distribución territorial de recursos y competencias entre los distintos niveles de gobierno. La estrategia metodológica utilizada permite abordar el problema de endogeneidad presente en el fenómeno de estudio; ambos grupos de variables se incorporan al modelo tanto desde una perspectiva estática como desde una perspectiva dinámica, además en un momento del análisis se les considera como exógenas y en otro momento como endógenas. La investigación pone en cuestión la idea de que las instituciones tienen un efecto lineal sobre el comportamiento de los actores políticos para sugerir que, bajo ciertas condiciones, es el comportamiento político el que puede promover cambios significativos en las instituciones. Uno de los principales hallazgos es que el desempeño electoral de una organización partidista y la capacidad de sus liderazgos para evitar fracturas en el grupo dirigente resultan ser factores que pueden potenciar o –en su defecto-- minimizar la relación entre los grupos de variables de interés
The research activity of this doctoral study condenses in the three articles here presented. Each text makes a theoretical and empirical exploration –from a distinct logic of analysis-- of the relationship between two groups of variables and different possible directions of causality between them: the territorial distribution of resources and competences within a Compound State and the territorial distribution of power within political parties that there operate. The first paper aims to understand those factors that facilitate harmonization of interests between governments that share the same partisan label. The second examines what effect may changes in the territorial structure of the state --particularly its decentralization—may have on changes observed in political parties. Finally, the third paper aims to have a better understanding of the potential effects that changes in the balance of power within political parties may have on the level of interest that each of these organizations has in promoting changes in the distribution of territorial resources and competences between different levels of government. The methodological strategy used allows to tackle the endogeneity problem present in the phenomenon of study. This is attempted by analyzing groups of variables in the model from both a static and a dynamic perspective, considering variables at some point of the analysis as exogenous and later as endogenous. The research challenges the idea that institutions have a linear effect on the behavior of political actors, to suggest that under certain conditions political behavior may itself promote institutional change. One of this research’s main findings is that the electoral performance of a party organization and its leadership ability to prevent fractures in the governing coalition are found to be factors that can enhance or --failing that - minimize the relationship between the groups of variables of interest.
The research activity of this doctoral study condenses in the three articles here presented. Each text makes a theoretical and empirical exploration –from a distinct logic of analysis-- of the relationship between two groups of variables and different possible directions of causality between them: the territorial distribution of resources and competences within a Compound State and the territorial distribution of power within political parties that there operate. The first paper aims to understand those factors that facilitate harmonization of interests between governments that share the same partisan label. The second examines what effect may changes in the territorial structure of the state --particularly its decentralization—may have on changes observed in political parties. Finally, the third paper aims to have a better understanding of the potential effects that changes in the balance of power within political parties may have on the level of interest that each of these organizations has in promoting changes in the distribution of territorial resources and competences between different levels of government. The methodological strategy used allows to tackle the endogeneity problem present in the phenomenon of study. This is attempted by analyzing groups of variables in the model from both a static and a dynamic perspective, considering variables at some point of the analysis as exogenous and later as endogenous. The research challenges the idea that institutions have a linear effect on the behavior of political actors, to suggest that under certain conditions political behavior may itself promote institutional change. One of this research’s main findings is that the electoral performance of a party organization and its leadership ability to prevent fractures in the governing coalition are found to be factors that can enhance or --failing that - minimize the relationship between the groups of variables of interest.
Keywords
partidos políticos, federalismo, Estado compuesto, Estado autonómico, descentralización, relaciones intergubernamentales, institucionalismo, Mexico, España
Subjects
32 - Politics
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
