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. ÍNDICE: Introduction: Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe: A Framework for Analysis; W.Swenden and B.Maddens - Towards a Regionalization of Statewide Electoral Trends in Decentralized States?; K.Deschouwer - Territory andElectoral Politics in Germany; D.Hough and M.KoC¬ - Rediscovering the Region:Territorial Politics and Party Organizations in Germany; K.Detterbeck and 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 and M.MC)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 and L.Libbrecht - Statewide Parties and Regional Party Competition: An Analysis of Party Manifestos in the United Kingdom; - E.Fabre and E.MartC-nez-Herrera - Conclusion; W.Swenden and B.Maddens -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52162-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 21/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés