Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe [Hardcover]

This book looks at the organization and strategy of state-wide parties from across some of the most important multi-layered countries in Western Europe. The volume provides?the first systematic attempt to study the strategy of state-wide parties on the basis of the comparative literature on issue voting.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.Ko? 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.M?ndez 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.Stefuriuc 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.Mart?nez-Herrera Conclusion; W.Swenden ?& B.Maddens

'The book is not only 'important'; I feel it is truly ice-breaking. Taking into account that federalism and party research are commonly two very distinct parts of the science, the prime merit of the book and its contributors is that they try to overcome this gap by bringing these 'alien' approaches together.' Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Renzsch, Jean-Monnet Chair of European Studies, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

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