04644nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-50906-3 DE-He213 20251030111422.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240210s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031509063 978-3-031-50906-3 10.1007/978-3-031-50906-3 doi JN1-9692.2 JP bicssc 1D bicssc POL058000 bisacsh JP 1D thema Bolgherini, Silvia. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70849 Local Electoral Participation in Europe [electronic resource] : The Roots of Municipal Politics / by Silvia Bolgherini, Selena Grimaldi, Aldo Paparo. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 125 p. 27 illus., 21 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Electoral turnout: the challenge at the local level -- Chapter 2: Between national and municipal: The European map of municipal electoral participation -- Chapter 3: What drives municipal-national differences in turnout? Towards a compounded explanation -- Chapter 4: Conclusion: what about local turnout? While electoral participation is a traditional topic in political science, voter turnout at the local level is still largely uncharted. There are very few large-N comparative works on municipal turnout and, as a result, a lack of a comprehensive comparative picture of local electoral participation. This book aims to fill that gap by taking an innovative approach to the topic. The volume makes three major advances at the empirical, methodological and theoretical levels. Empirically, it provides a large-N comparison by covering 18 European countries and more than 70,000 municipalities. Methodologically, the book uses the multi-level congruence theory to study municipal turnout in relation to national turnout, exploring the variation between those levels. Theoretically, it bridges the two main (and often mutually exclusive) strands in the literature on local elections – the lower-rank and different-kind approaches – and it assesses the features and mechanisms of local voting. Silvia Bolgherini is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Perugia, Italy. Her research interests include electoral studies, comparative political systems and local government. She has published widely on these topics in international journals and is a co-author of Germany after the Grand Coalition: Governance and Politics in a Turbulent Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Selena Grimaldi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Macerata, Italy. Her research interests include presidential studies, electoral studies, comparative political systems and local elites. She is the author of The Informal Powers of Western European Presidents: A Way out of Weakness? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Aldo Paparo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. His main research interests are elections and voting behaviour, with a particular focus on the local level. His research has appeared in Political Psychology, West European Politics, Electoral Studies, South European Society and Politics, Local Government Studies and Italian Political Science Review. Europe Politics and government. 69875 Elections. 70850 Comparative government. 67598 European Politics. 69876 Electoral Politics. 70851 Comparative Politics. 60386 Grimaldi, Selena. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70852 Paparo, Aldo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70853 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031509056 Printed edition: 9783031509070 Printed edition: 9783031509087 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50906-3 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 57568 57568