The party politics of territorial reforms in Europe
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The party politics of territorial reforms in Europe
(The west European politics series / series editors, Klaus H. Goetz, Peter Mair, and Gordon Smith)
Routledge, 2014
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe Simon Toubeau and Emanuele Massetti
2. Party Strategies on Territorial Reform: State-wide Parties and the State of Autonomies in Spain Tania Verge
3. Party Strategies, Voter Demands and Territorial Reform in Belgium Kris Deschouwer
4. Sailing with Northern Winds: Party Politics and Federal Reforms in Italy Emanuele Massetti and Simon Toubeau
5. Party Servants, Ideologues or Regional Representatives? The German Lander and the Reform of Federalism Ed Turner and Carolyn Rowe
6. Party Strategies and Administrative-Territorial Reforms in Poland Martin Brusis
7. The Forbidden Fruit of Federalism: Evidence from Romania and Slovakia Daniel Bochsler and Edina Szoecsik
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