1st Edition

New Challenges for Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties

Edited By Eve Hepburn Copyright 2011
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from ‘niche’ actors in party systems to mainstream political players. No longer the ‘outsider’ in party politics, these parties have successfully entered government at the regional and state levels and many have been responsible for pushing the agenda for radical constitutional change in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy,... Read more

1. Introduction: Reconceptualising Regional Mobilisation – Eve Hepburn (University of Edinburgh)

2. Explaining Regionalist Party Positioning in the Multi-dimensional Ideological Space: A Framework for Analysis – Emanuele Massetti (University of Sussex)

3. From Protest to Power: Mapping the Ideological Evolution of Plaid Cymru and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego – Anwen Elias (University of Aberystwyth)

4. The Rise and Fall of the Belgian Regionalist Parties – Kris Deschouwer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

5. Territorial Politics and the German PDS/Left Party – Dan Hough (University of Sussex) and Michael Koß (Universität Potsdam)

6. The Ideological Polarisation and De-polarisation of Sardinian Nationalism – Eve Hepburn (University of Edinburgh)

7. From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Setting – Peter Lynch (University of Stirling)

8. New Research Agendas on Regional Party Competition – Charlie Jeffery (University of Edinburgh)

Biography

Eve Hepburn is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores party responses to multi-level governance, dynamics of regional party systems, and decentralisation in the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada. She has published widely in the field, and is the author of Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system (Manchester University Press, 2010).