Territorial party politics in Western Europe

edited by Wilfried Swenden and Bart Maddens

During the last decades, several West European states have gone through a process of decentralization, involving the shift of significant legislative powers to sub-national entities or regions. As a result their party systems have become multi-layered, featuring a variety of regional party systems that often differ considerably from the state-wide system. State-wide parties are the key integrative force in such a multi-level party system. Yet, in order to play their integrative role, state-wide parties must perform a difficult balancing act. Securing votes in regional elections requires that they give sufficient autonomy to their regional branches and give them some strategic leeway, without however jeopardizing the cohesion and programmatic coherence of the party as a whole. This book offers a powerful synthesis of research in party politics, federalism and regional politics and extends existing insights by bringing in new empirical evidence on the territorial organization and strategies of state-wide parties in five federal or regionalized states in Western Europe: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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[目次]

  • Introduction: Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe: A Framework for Analysis
  • W.Swenden & B.Maddens Towards a Regionalization of Statewide Electoral Trends in Decentralized States?
  • K.Deschouwer Territory and Electoral Politics in Germany
  • D.Hough & M.Koss Rediscovering the Region: Territorial Politics and Party Organizations in Germany
  • K.Detterbeck & C.Jeffery Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The Case of Italy
  • J.Hopkin Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The British and Spanish Statewide Parties Compared
  • E.Fabre & M.Mendez Lago Devolution and Party Organization in the UK
  • J.Bradbury Splitting the Difference: The Radical Approach of the Belgian Parties
  • F.Verleden Authority in Multi-Level Parties: A Principal-Agent Framework and Cases from Germany and Spain
  • P.van Houten Governing Strategies in Multi-Level Settings: Coordination, Innovation or Territorialization?
  • I.A tefuriuc How Statewide Parties Cope with the Regionalist Issue: The Case of Spain
  • B.Maddens & L.Libbrecht Statewide Parties and Regional Party Competition: An Analysis of Party Manifestos in the United Kingdom
  • E.Fabre & E.Martinez-Herrera Conclusion
  • W.Swenden & B.Maddens

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書名 Territorial party politics in Western Europe
著作者等 Swenden, Wilfried
Maddens Bart
出版元 Palgrave Macmillan
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 xvi, 315 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780230521629
NCID BA88208611
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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