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Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility
A Comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Sonia Alonso
278 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-969157-9
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Hardback
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26 April 2012
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- The book presents a systematic comparison of four cases that are seldom compared in the literature
- The book bridges three bodies of academic literature: minority nationalism, party competition, and political decentralization.
How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is devolution the best response to these demands? Why do national governments implement devolution given the high risk that devolution will encourage peripheral parties to demand ever more devolved powers? The aim of this book is to answer these questions through a comparative analysis of devolution in four European countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The author argues that electoral competition between state and peripheral
parties pushes some state parties to prefer devolution at some particular point in time. Devolution is an electoral strategy adopted in order to make it more difficult in the long term for peripheral parties to increase their electoral support by claiming the monopoly of representation of the peripheral territory and the people in it. The strategy of devolution is preferred over short-term tactics of convergence towards the peripheral programmatic agenda because the pro-periphery tactics of state parties in unitary centralised states are not credible in the eyes of voters. The price that state parties pay for making their electoral tactics credible is the 'entrenchment' of the devolution programmatic agenda in the electoral arena. The final implication of this argument is that in
democratic systems devolution is not a decision to protect the state from the secessionist threat. It is, instead, a decision by state parties to protect their needed electoral majorities.
Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The Comparative Politics series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of
Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg.Readership: Scholars and Students of comparative politics and European studies.
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Sonia Alonso, Senior Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) Sonia Alonso was awarded her PhD by the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Juan March Institute. Since 2004 she has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and, before this, she has done research and teaching in various universities: University Carlos III of Madrid, St. Antony's College (Oxford University), Royal Holloway College, and University of Salamanca. Her main research interests involve the analysis of political devolution, party competition in decentralised states, minority nationalism, and ethnic conflict.
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1: The Centre-Periphery Conflict and Two Paradoxes
2: Centre-periphery Party Competition
3: Political Devolution and Credibility Constraints
4: Parties and Voters in Two Dimensions: A First Examination of the Landscape
5: The Emergence of the Peripheral Party Threat
6: Devolution: Making Electoral Moves Credible
7: State Parties' Electoral Strategies after Devolution
8: Peripheral Parties' Electoral Strategies after Devolution
9: Conclusions
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