Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Verge Tania
    Party Strategies on Territorial Reform: State-wide Parties and the State of Autonomies in Spain
    in West European Politics , vol. 36, n. 2 ,  2013 ,  317-337
    ABSTRACT: This article examines the interaction between political decentralisation and state-wide parties’ strategies on territorial politics using Spain as a case study. It finds that electoral and territorial logics of action largely drive change. Parties in central government often become reluctant decentralisers as they seek to control the devolution process, unless they need the support of regionalist parties, whereas opposition parties tend to push for further decentralisation. Yet party strategies maintain a significant continuity over time as they are bound to particular ideologies which, in multinational countries, might translate into specific preferences for the territorial accommodation of culturally distinct regions. The article also shows that, under certain circumstances, some logics of action prevail over the others. Finally, while party politics significantly influences decentralisation, the article provides evidence of feedback effects of decentralisation on party strategies.
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