Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2022.2060207
L. Whitten
{"title":"State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union","authors":"L. Whitten","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2022.2060207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2022.2060207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41386022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2022.2040991
Daniel Cetrà
{"title":"Nationalism, Secessionism and Autonomy","authors":"Daniel Cetrà","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2022.2040991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2022.2040991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45182530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-29DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2022.2029850
Martín Freigedo
ABSTRACT This report analyses the subnational elections in Uruguay in 2020. The main findings show an important consolidation of the right-wing parties, particularly the Partido Nacional, both at the second and third level of government (departments and municipalities respectively). This electoral power is reflected in three events. Firstly, the victory claimed by such party in 15 out of the country’s 19 departmental governments, with cases in which electoral competition tends to be very low. A decreased electoral volatility between national and departmental elections is also associated with such power. Finally, there is the clear victory of the Partido Nacional at the municipal level, where it has managed to be elected in 90 out of the 125 local governments. In a country with one of the most consolidated democracies in the region, this paper raises the issue about the lack of competitiveness at the subnational level in several territories of the country.
{"title":"The 2020 subnational elections in Uruguay: The consolidation of the Right-Wing Electoral Power in the territory","authors":"Martín Freigedo","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2022.2029850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2022.2029850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This report analyses the subnational elections in Uruguay in 2020. The main findings show an important consolidation of the right-wing parties, particularly the Partido Nacional, both at the second and third level of government (departments and municipalities respectively). This electoral power is reflected in three events. Firstly, the victory claimed by such party in 15 out of the country’s 19 departmental governments, with cases in which electoral competition tends to be very low. A decreased electoral volatility between national and departmental elections is also associated with such power. Finally, there is the clear victory of the Partido Nacional at the municipal level, where it has managed to be elected in 90 out of the 125 local governments. In a country with one of the most consolidated democracies in the region, this paper raises the issue about the lack of competitiveness at the subnational level in several territories of the country.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43722681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2022.2028279
Juan Pablo Milanese, Juan Albarracín
ABSTRACT In this report, we analyse subnational electoral dynamics, reviewing some temporal patterns of both municipal and departmental elections in Colombia; however, we focus particularly on the most recent elections in 2019. Local and regional electoral dynamics are significantly decoupled from national politics and, despite the existence of the same party labels across all levels of government, we show that political parties are secondary actors in subnational elections whose central purpose is to satisfy legal requirements for candidate nomination. Leaders of political machines and other regional or local political organizations are the centre of subnational electoral politics. Therefore, parties are not the appropriate units of analysis to understand electoral (or post-electoral) subnational politics. In contrast, coalitions of variable composition that transcend parties shape processes of political cooperation and competition in local and regional electoral politics.
{"title":"Electoral decentralisation with weak parties. Analysis of Colombia’s subnational elections","authors":"Juan Pablo Milanese, Juan Albarracín","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2022.2028279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2022.2028279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this report, we analyse subnational electoral dynamics, reviewing some temporal patterns of both municipal and departmental elections in Colombia; however, we focus particularly on the most recent elections in 2019. Local and regional electoral dynamics are significantly decoupled from national politics and, despite the existence of the same party labels across all levels of government, we show that political parties are secondary actors in subnational elections whose central purpose is to satisfy legal requirements for candidate nomination. Leaders of political machines and other regional or local political organizations are the centre of subnational electoral politics. Therefore, parties are not the appropriate units of analysis to understand electoral (or post-electoral) subnational politics. In contrast, coalitions of variable composition that transcend parties shape processes of political cooperation and competition in local and regional electoral politics.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49573566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-17DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.2007887
Susan Divald
{"title":"Autonomy à la carte: The creative claiming tactics of the Hungarian minority in Romania","authors":"Susan Divald","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2021.2007887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.2007887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48776871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-09DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.2025048
Carles Ferreira
{"title":"Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution and the State","authors":"Carles Ferreira","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2021.2025048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.2025048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42681575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2020.1824994
Ion Pagoaga Ibiricu
ABSTRACT This paper analyses party competition during secession crises in advanced democracies. It focuses on Quebec, Scotland and Catalonia to show how a party or parties use secession as a competition issue, how other parties respond and what are the consequences for regional party systems. Using quantitative text analysis of parliamentary debates, this work finds that during secession crises, most parties are forced to talk about territorial integrity and that party systems polarize in the territorial dimension. However, parties can adopt different strategies to alter their salience and position on the issue. Most surprisingly, this paper shows that secessionists are not always the ones that emphasize secession most and that parties do not always position at the poles of the territorial dimension.
{"title":"Party competition during secession crises in advanced democracies","authors":"Ion Pagoaga Ibiricu","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2020.1824994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2020.1824994","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses party competition during secession crises in advanced democracies. It focuses on Quebec, Scotland and Catalonia to show how a party or parties use secession as a competition issue, how other parties respond and what are the consequences for regional party systems. Using quantitative text analysis of parliamentary debates, this work finds that during secession crises, most parties are forced to talk about territorial integrity and that party systems polarize in the territorial dimension. However, parties can adopt different strategies to alter their salience and position on the issue. Most surprisingly, this paper shows that secessionists are not always the ones that emphasize secession most and that parties do not always position at the poles of the territorial dimension.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13597566.2020.1824994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59894119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.2007477
P. Bursens, Dirk De Bièvre
ABSTRACT Constitutionally, Belgium represents the most extreme case of regional entities wielding power over EU external trade policymaking. Formally, the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels regions can wield veto power over Belgian positions. Yet, only once has a Belgian region actually made use of this capacity, when Wallonia temporarily blocked the conclusion of the EU trade agreement with Canada in 2016 (CETA). We show that political actors – legislative and executive – could only activate this constitutional possibility in conjunction with other necessary conditions: a high degree of societal mobilization and, above all, inter-party competition across different levels of government. As the Walloon Parti Socialiste seized the moment, it reinforced the paradox of weakness and strengthened the EU’s trade bargaining power towards Canada. We finish by discussing the spill-over effects of the 2016 CETA episode into the shaping of future EU trade policies, as well as into future intra-Belgian EU policymaking.
{"title":"Seizing the moment: Regional opportunity structures and Wallonia’s temporary veto of the EU–Canada bilateral trade agreement","authors":"P. Bursens, Dirk De Bièvre","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2021.2007477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.2007477","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Constitutionally, Belgium represents the most extreme case of regional entities wielding power over EU external trade policymaking. Formally, the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels regions can wield veto power over Belgian positions. Yet, only once has a Belgian region actually made use of this capacity, when Wallonia temporarily blocked the conclusion of the EU trade agreement with Canada in 2016 (CETA). We show that political actors – legislative and executive – could only activate this constitutional possibility in conjunction with other necessary conditions: a high degree of societal mobilization and, above all, inter-party competition across different levels of government. As the Walloon Parti Socialiste seized the moment, it reinforced the paradox of weakness and strengthened the EU’s trade bargaining power towards Canada. We finish by discussing the spill-over effects of the 2016 CETA episode into the shaping of future EU trade policies, as well as into future intra-Belgian EU policymaking.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42287270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.2000402
Yannis Tsirbas
ABSTRACT In May 2019, regional elections were held in Greece, simultaneously with municipal and European elections. The regional elections were placed right at the end of the national electoral cycle and national elections were planned to be held four months later. In general, the institutional and structural setting was favouring a nationalized, second-order character of the 2019 regional elections. Nevertheless, most of the patterns identified in the election outcomes point towards regionalization rather than nationalization. Hence, the 2019 regional elections in Greece were both regionalized and nationalized.
{"title":"The 2019 regional elections in Greece: Both regionalized and nationalized","authors":"Yannis Tsirbas","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2021.2000402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.2000402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In May 2019, regional elections were held in Greece, simultaneously with municipal and European elections. The regional elections were placed right at the end of the national electoral cycle and national elections were planned to be held four months later. In general, the institutional and structural setting was favouring a nationalized, second-order character of the 2019 regional elections. Nevertheless, most of the patterns identified in the election outcomes point towards regionalization rather than nationalization. Hence, the 2019 regional elections in Greece were both regionalized and nationalized.","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46154600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.1998005
Abdinor Dahir, Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali
{"title":"Federalism in post-conflict Somalia: A critical review of its reception and governance challenges","authors":"Abdinor Dahir, Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali","doi":"10.1080/13597566.2021.1998005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1998005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46657,"journal":{"name":"Regional and Federal Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45779218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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