Call for Papers Special Issue: Subnational Elections

Posted on 2024-03-11

Call for Papers Special Issue:

Subnational Elections

 

 

Since the turn of the century, Latin America has experienced a veritable boom in research on subnational politics. Earlier studies in comparative politics presented an overly homogeneous vision that has since been corrected. The subnational approach to the study of elections has taught us that national democracy can coexist symbiotically, at the subnational level, with enclaves that are less democratic or with those that sustain authoritarian practices; that national party systems cannot be understood without paying attention to the existence of factions, parties or even true subnational party systems; and that local and regional electoral and political dynamics are key to understanding all sorts of phenomena such as migration, security, or the provision of public goods and services, among other important contributions.

 

These advances have opened fruitful paths that allow us to revisit the major issues in the study of Latin American subnational politics in the heat of the most recent local and regional elections. Do subnational elections deepen democracy? How are local, regional, and national elections articulated? What are the impacts of different subnational electoral dynamics on people's well-being? By analyzing recent subregional elections in different countries, this special issue will revisit the contributions of a perspective that has transformed our understanding of Latin American democracies.

 

Paper submitted for potential inclusion in this special issue of Desafíos may explore the following topics:

 

  • Transformations in subnational electoral trends as a result of recent elections.
  • The influence of local elections on the formation and behavior of subnational factions and parties.
  • Subnational political dynamics and their impact on national electoral results.
  • The electoral geography of political projects and their connection with subnational dynamics.
  • The elections, configuration, and motivations of subnational political elites—governors and bureaucrats.
  • Subnational elections and dynamics of representation or identity transformations.
  • The interrelationships between subnational political dynamics, state capacities, bureaucracy formation, and provision of public goods and services at the subnational level.
  • Subnational elections and institutional transformations.

 

 

Guest Editors:

 

Yann Basset (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)

Jacqueline Behrend (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)

Silvia Otero Bahamón (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)

Manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese

Deadline for submission:  July 22nd, 2024

 

Submissions: https://bit.ly/revistaconv

Questions? revistadesafios@urosario.edu.co