Información General

• Autores: Wilfried Swenden (ed. lit.), Bart Maddens (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Palgrave Mcmillan
• Año de publicación: 2009
• País: España
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52162-9
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Resumen

• 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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Listado de artículos

• • Territorial party politics in Western Europe: a framework

    Wilfried Swenden, Bart Maddens

    págs. 1-30

    

  • Towards a regionalization of statewide electoral trends in decentralized states?: The cases of Belgium and Spain

    Kris Deschouwer

    págs. 31-46

    

  • Territory and electoral politics in Germany

    Dan Hough, Michael Koss

    págs. 47-62

    

  • Rediscovering the region: Territorial politics and party organizations in Germany

    Klaus Detterbeck, Charlie Jeffery

    págs. 63-85

    

  • Decentralization and party organizational change: The case of Italy

    Jonathan Hopkin

    págs. 86-101

    

  • Decentralization and party organizational change: The british and spanish statewide parties compared

    Elodie Fabre, Mónica Méndez Lago

    págs. 102-118

    

  • Devolution and party organization in the UK: Statewide parties and statewide-regional branch relations over candidate selection in Scotland and Wales

    Jonathan Bradbury

    págs. 119-144

    

  • Splitting the difference: The radical approach of the belgian parties

    Frederik Verleden

    págs. 145-166

    

  • Authority in multi-level parties: A principal-agent framework and cases from Germany and Spain

    Pieter Van Houten

    págs. 167-182

    

  • Governing strategies in multi-level settings: Coordination, innovation or territorialization?

    Irina Stefuriuc

    págs. 183-203

    

  • How statewide parties cope with the regionalist issue: The case of Spain; a directional approach

    Bart Maddens, Liselotte Libbrecht

    págs. 204-228

    

  • Statewide parties and regional party competition: An analysis of party manifestos in the United Kingdom

    Elodie Fabre, Enric Martínez Herrera

    págs. 229-248

    

  • Concluding observations

    Wilfried Swenden, Bart Maddens

    págs. 249-270