@article {Field:2014:0010-4159:293,
title = "Minority Parliamentary Government and Multilevel Politics: Spain's System of Mutual Back Scratching",
journal = "Comparative Politics",
parent_itemid = "infobike://cuny/cp",
publishercode ="cuny",
year = "2014",
volume = "46",
number = "3",
publication date ="2014-04-01T00:00:00",
pages = "293-312",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0010-4159",
eissn = "2151-6227",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/2014/00000046/00000003/art00004",
doi = "doi:10.5129/001041514810943090",
author = "Field, Bonnie N.",
abstract = "This article analyzes how multilevel territorial politics impact the performance of minority parliamentary governments. It tests whether the governing status of a regional party at the regional levelwhether it is governing, and, if so, in which type of cabinetaffects its
level of support for a statewide party governing in minority at the national level. Using the Spanish case, it concludes that governing dynamics at the regional level affect regional parties' behavior in the national parliament. Furthermore, a regional party's support for the national government
is, in part, dependent upon its own need for support to govern in its region. Both findings suggest that particular regional governing dynamics can assure or complicate a minority government's ability to attain the parliamentary support necessary to govern.",
}