Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-30
Towards a Regionalization of Statewide Electoral Trends in Decentralized States? The Cases of Belgium and Spain....Pages 31-46
Territory and Electoral Politics in Germany....Pages 47-62
Rediscovering the Region: Territorial Politics and Party Organizations in Germany....Pages 63-85
Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The Case of Italy....Pages 86-101
Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The British and Spanish Statewide Parties Compared....Pages 102-118
Devolution and Party Organization in the UK: Statewide Parties and Statewide-Regional Branch Relations over Candidate Selection in Scotland and Wales....Pages 119-144
Splitting the Difference: The Radical Approach of the Belgian Parties....Pages 145-166
Authority in Multilevel Parties: A Principal-Agent Framework and Cases from Germany and Spain....Pages 167-182
Governing Strategies in Multilevel Settings: Coordination, Innovation or Territorialization?....Pages 183-203
How Statewide Parties Cope with the Regionalist Issue: The Case of Spain; A Directional Approach....Pages 204-228
Statewide Parties and Regional Party Competition: An Analysis of Party Manifestos in the United Kingdom....Pages 229-248
Concluding Observations....Pages 249-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-315