
Iñaki SagarzazuUniversity of Houston | U of H, UH · Department of Political Science
Iñaki Sagarzazu
PhD
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Iñaki Sagarzazu's research is in Comparative Politics, Elections, Public Opinion, Voting Behavior, Legislative Studies and Political Communications.
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July 2019 - present
August 2016 - May 2019
August 2012 - July 2016
Education
September 2006 - May 2010
January 2005 - December 2006
September 1998 - April 2004
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Publications (37)
This chapter examines speech participation in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. It discusses the rules structuring speech participation, the impact of electoral incentives, and the country’s party system. The empirical analysis examines all speeches delivered on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies between 2006 and 2018. We find that being in the op...
Existe una amplia gama de literatura que analiza la interacción entre la política interna y externa. En este sentido, recientemente hemos visto que los políticos estratégicos utilizan líderes extranjeros divisivos como una herramienta para aprovechar en la política interna. Sin embargo, el uso de estos líderes en campañas nacionales, y particularme...
Attitudes towards homosexuality and same-sex marriage in the Americas and Europe have been found to be tightly related to religion, and especially, how religion is practiced. However, religious individuals are not consistent in their rejection of homosexuality. We explore how religions and religious individuals differ among each other in attitudes...
Government perpetrated attacks against independent media, ranging from journalists’ imprisonment to verbal attacks against outlets, carry an adverse effect for freedoms in democracies. Verbal attacks specifically provide leaders with a low-cost, easy to execute tool to delegitimize critical media. In this paper we present a theoretical contribution...
Populists are often identified based on their behavior, but the discursive element of their identities is also a frequently observed characteristic of this type of leader. We examine the determinants of populist foreign policy rhetoric in the case of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. We argue that a leftist populist leader like Chávez will focus on anti-imp...
The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a pressing research gap, especially given the recent and significant reactivation of territorial or center-periphery conflicts in We...
Understanding the drivers of party issue emphasis and the specific role of public opinion is important to shed light on the mechanisms of contemporary party competition, and to assess the quality of representation in liberal democracies.
Previous research has produced conflicting results between issue ownership and issue dialogue perspectives, and...
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) th...
Objective: While selective issue emphasis is a widely recognized strategy of party competition, we have little knowledge about how coalition parties interact with each other when deciding which policy issues to emphasize. Therefore we ask, who leads and who follows the issue agenda in coalition governments?
Methods: We create an issue attention da...
Since Hugo Chávez Frias assumed the Venezuelan presidency in 1999, Venezue-la has strengthened ties with most of its Latin American neighbors, particularly those where sympathetic leftist administrations also managed to assume power, including Argentina. With our analysis we show: 1) that Argentine media, divided between pro-and anti-government pos...
El carácter de una elección, definido por la competitividad de la elección, tiende a ser pensado como la causa de las diferencias en niveles agregados de participación. El carácter también ha sido utilizado para explicar las diferencias entre el número de votantes de dos elecciones diferentes. En este trabajo, propongo nuevas formas de medir estas...
Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: They need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term...
Why do political parties prioritize some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership theory suggests that parties emphasize policy issues on which they have an advantage to increase the salience of these issues among voters, the riding the wave theory instead argues that parties respond to voters by highlighting policy issues that are sali...
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper se...
Classic and revisionist perspectives on economic voting have thoroughly analyzed the role of macro-economic indicators and individual partisanship as determinants of subjective evaluations of the national economy. Surprisingly, however, top-down perspectives analyzing the capacity of parties to cue and persuade voters about national economic condit...
This article studies the first year of chavismo without Hugo Chavez presence in Venezuelan politics. 2013 was not only marked by the death of the re-elected president Chavez, but also for how close the opposition was to winning the presidential election held to choose a new president. The results of this election set the pattern for the year's poli...
Research on radical right politics shows that the immigration issue can reshape electoral alignments and patterns of political competition in favor of anti-immigrant parties. However, we know surprisingly little about the capacity of the immigration issue to generate electoral change in systems where radical parties are absent. On the basis of issu...
RESUMEN En este artículo se analiza el primer año del chavismo sin Chávez en la política venezolana. El 2013 estuvo marcado no solo por el fallecimiento del presidente reelegido, sino también por lo cerca que estuvo la oposición de obtener la victoria en la elección presidencial, que fue necesario hacer, para elegir al nuevo primer mandatario. Los...
How does ideological congruency affect the speed of legislative decision-making in the European Union? Despite the crucial importance of actor preferences, the effect of partisan alignments and ideological composition of the European institutions has largely been neglected. However, we argue that the ideological congruence between legislative bodie...
Political scientists have long debated theories of electoral party realignments. In this paper, we apply ecological inference methods to statistically analyze the transfer of votes within counties in US presidential elections since 1860. Through this analysis we are able to identify the major periods of party realignment in US history and the count...
Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: They need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term...
El colapso del sistema de partidos venezolano generó polémica debido a que éste se considera uno de los sistemas políticos más consolidados de Latinoamérica. Numerosos estudios han analizado las causas que contribuyeron a este colapso. Sin embargo, no existen estudios que muestren el proceso de reestructuración del mismo. A través del estudio de lo...
The collapse of the Venezuelan party system stirred controversy because it was considered one of the most consolidated political systems of Latin America. Several studies have analyzed the causes that contributed to this collapse. None, however, have studied the restructuring process that happened later. Through a study of all the electoral process...
This article extends the analysis of political parties in electorally volatile and organizationally weak party systems by evaluating two implications centered on legislative voting behavior. First, it examines whether disunity prevails where weakness of programmatic and electoral commonalities abound. Second, it analyzes whether inchoate party syst...
In multiparty legislatures, the largest party or coalition may fall short of controlling a majority of plenary seats. However, plurality-led congresses generally endow the largest parties with extensive agenda-setting prerogatives, even when plenary majorities are lacking. In this article, we present a model and compelling evidence describing chang...
Informative party labels tend to provide information to citizens about the policies a party will pursue if elected. The clarity of these labels is impacted by the level of the party's institutionalization. The effect that party institutionalization has on the dynamics of political dialogue, however, has largely been ignored. How parties and politic...
Do politicians talk to each other or talk past each other? In the last few years there has been renewed interest in the strategic thinking that drive politicians to engage in political dialogue with peers from a different political color. Most of this research, however, has been limited to understanding political dialogue in the campaign trail or i...
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Does the existence of political dialogue signal the lack of party institutionalization? Research on political dialogue, and the dynamics of issue ownership and issue salience, argues that parties have no incentive to trespass on issues owned by opponents. This requires that parties have niches of advantaged issues, which are obtained through the sp...
This paper examines how the system change following periods of authoritarian dictatorships affected the political outlook of citizens by comparing views of democracy, trust in diverse political and social institutions, and political engagement among several generations of Latin Americans. We investigate whether people who were brought up during per...