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Taylor & Francis The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe 2014 Edition by Emanuele Massetti, Simon Toubeau
The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania). Each case-study considers different drivers of decentralization, such as territorial identities and the demands of regionalist parties for territorial autonomy or independence, efficiency concerns related to issues of uneven economic development and economic competitiveness, the pressure from supra-national organizations (especially the EU), as well as different combinations of these drivers. They also consider how the ideology and organisation of state-wide parties and the institutional context in which they compete shape their responses to these drivers and their strategy towards the question of territorial reform. This collection investigates the logic of the actions that guide political parties' strategy to highlight trends that are apparent across the case-studies.This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. Table of contents :- 1. The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe Simon Toubeau and Emanuele Massetti2. Party Strategies on Territorial Reform: State-wide Parties and the State of Autonomies in Spain Tania Verge3. Party Strategies, Voter Demands and Territorial Reform in Belgium Kris Deschouwer4. Sailing with Northern Winds: Party Politics and Federal Reforms in Italy Emanuele Massetti and Simon Toubeau5. Party Servants, Ideologues or Regional Representatives? The German Lander and the Reform of Federalism Ed Turner and Carolyn Rowe6. Party Strategies and Administrative-Territorial Reforms in Poland Martin Brusis7. The Forbidden Fruit of Federalism: Evidence from Romania and Slovakia Daniel Bochsler and Edina Szoecsik