Regionalist and Nationalist Parties in Multiple Tier Polities

Abstract

The panel concerns those parties that have been variously labeled as regionalist, minority nationalist, regional nationalist, ethno-regional, etc. It is devoted to papers that investigate these parties’ activities across at least two levels of government (from local to supranational level) and that address one or more of the following issues: electoral/political focus within the multi-level system (which level is the most important for these parties? And why?); party formation and development; electoral politics across levels (focusing on electoral supply, or demand or both); management of organizational tensions across levels; choices and implications of participation in office at different levels; party strategy and ideological adaptation across levels; impact of regionalist parties on public policy (including constitutional policy) at different levels. The panel is open to all methodological approaches. Papers on extra-European (and extra-Western) countries are welcome, as far as territorial and multi-level politics is conducted overwhelmingly ‘by ballots, rather than by bullets’.

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Regionalist Parties and National Government Performance in a Multitier System	View Paper Details
Decentralisation and Regionalist Parties’ Strength in National and Regional Elections	View Paper Details
Institutional Representation Policies and Instruments for Ethnic and National Minorities	View Paper Details
Political Representation of Ethnic Minority Groups Across Levels	View Paper Details