Beschreibung:
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, Belgium, Germany and France.
1. Introduction: Re-conceptualising Sub-state Mobilization Eve Hepburn 2. Explaining Regionalist Party Positioning in a Multidimensional Ideological Space: A Framework for Analysis Emanuele Massetti 3. From Protest to Power: Mapping the Ideological Evolution of Plaid Cymru and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego Anwen Elias 4. The Rise and Fall of the Belgian Regionalist Parties Kris Deschouwer 5. A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany Dan Hough and Michael Koß 6. Explaining Failure: The Highs and Lows of Sardinian Nationalism Eve Hepburn 7. From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting Peter Lynch 8. New Research Agendas on Regional Party Competition Charlie Jeffery