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Peripheral Elites at the Core: Power, Representation, and Central Institutions book cover

1st Edition

Peripheral Elites at the Core Power, Representation, and Central Institutions

Edited By Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Anastassia Obydenkova, Victoria Veguilla Copyright 2027
187 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the often-overlooked dynamics of how political actors from peripheral regions engage with central authorities to shape national policymaking. While territorial movements advocating autonomy or independence have been widely studied, this work addresses a critical gap by exploring the complex interactions between regional elites and central political actors and institutions.... Read more

Endorsements

 

Acknowledgment

 

Preface

 

1. Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship

Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Anastassia Obydenkova, and Victoria Veguilla

 

2. Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet

Alejandro Peinado García, Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Alistair Cole, Francisco José Jiménez Pérez and Gloria Martínez Cousinou

 

3. Interrogating regional territorial representation in post-democratic Spain

Juan Rodríguez Teruel, Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy and Fabiola Mota Consejero

 

4. Peripheral activism: understanding the influence of California and Texas on the American Union

James Cortes

 

5. Navigating turbulent waters: associative clientelism and the rise and decline of Riffian elites in Morocco

Ángela Suárez-Collado

 

6. Regionalisation under occupation: Western Saharan parliamentary elites and the Moroccan regionalisation strategy (2011–16)

Victoria Veguilla, María Angustias Parejo and Laura Feliu

 

7. The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s

Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova

 

8. Variegated city-region governance: centralised design, localised implementation and asymmetric integration in China’s Greater Bay Area

Edmund W. Cheng and Kin-Long Tong

 

9. The rise of the penguins: analysing the trajectory of a peripheral elite in Argentina (1991–2003)

Pamela Sosa

Biography

Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy is Lecturer at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, specializing in comparative politics, territorial politics, and policy analysis.

Anastassia Obydenkova is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis, the Spanish National Research Council (IAE-CSIC), and an affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, Spain.

Victoria Veguilla is a Political Science Lecturer at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville. Her research focuses on comparative politics and area studies in North Africa.

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