[PDF] Territorial Politics In Europe A Zero Sum Game The New Regionalism Territorial Competition And Political Restructuring In Western Europe eBook

Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This text traces the historical origins of regionalism, showing that theoretical politics has always been a feature of the West-European state. The book then analyzes the post-war model of territorial management in the Keynesian welfare state and shows how the current trends are re-shaping the meaning of political space and encouraging new forms of political mobilization and action.

Author : Christopher K. Ansell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2004-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521532624

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Author : Emanuele Massetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000155714

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The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania). Each case-study considers different drivers of decentralization, such as territorial identities and the demands of regionalist parties for territorial autonomy or independence, efficiency concerns related to issues of uneven economic development and economic competitiveness, the pressure from supra-national organizations (especially the EU), as well as different combinations of these drivers. They also consider how the ideology and organisation of state-wide parties and the institutional context in which they compete shape their responses to these drivers and their strategy towards the question of territorial reform. This collection investigates the logic of the actions that guide political parties’ strategy to highlight trends that are apparent across the case-studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Author : Rune Dahl Fitjar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135203296

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During the past 40 years, regions have become increasingly important in Western Europe both as units of government and as sources for political mobilization. This book examines why regional identities are stronger in some regions than in others, and why regional elites attempt to mobilize the public on a regionalist agenda at certain points in time. The author develops a model that explains change across space as well as time and provides a comprehensive discussion of the causes of regionalism. It focuses on endogenous developments in the regions and on change across time in the economic and political landscapes of the regions. Using a quantitative study of 212 Western European regions, which examine whether regionalism is related to cultural, economic and political characteristics of the regions, the book builds a model of the causes of regionalism. The issues are further explored through case studies on Scotland (UK) and Rogaland (Norway). This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political and social sciences, especially those with an interest in regions, regionalism and regional nationalism, Scottish politics, Norwegian politics, territorial identities and territorial politics.

Author : W. Swenden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023058294X

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This book looks at the organization and strategy of state-wide parties from across some of the most important multi-layered countries in Western Europe. The volume provides the first systematic attempt to study the strategy of state-wide parties on the basis of the comparative literature on issue voting.