Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe

1. Introduction
Wilfried Swenden, Bart Maddens

2. Towards a Regionalization of Statewide Electoral Trends in Decentralized States? The Cases of Belgium and Spain
Kris Deschouwer

3. Territory and Electoral Politics in Germany
Dan Hough, Michael Koß

4. Rediscovering the Region: Territorial Politics and Party Organizations in Germany
Klaus Detterbeck, Charlie Jeffery

5. Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The Case of Italy
Jonathan Hopkin

6. Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The British and Spanish Statewide Parties Compared
Elodie Fabre, Mónica Méndez-Lago

7. Devolution and Party Organization in the UK: Statewide Parties and Statewide-Regional Branch Relations over Candidate Selection in Scotland and Wales
Jonathan Bradbury

8. Splitting the Difference: The Radical Approach of the Belgian Parties
Frederik Verleden

9. Authority in Multilevel Parties: A Principal-Agent Framework and Cases from Germany and Spain
Pieter Houten

10. Governing Strategies in Multilevel Settings: Coordination, Innovation or Territorialization?
Irina Ştefuriuc

11. How Statewide Parties Cope with the Regionalist Issue: The Case of Spain; A Directional Approach
Bart Maddens, Liselotte Libbrecht

12. Statewide Parties and Regional Party Competition: An Analysis of Party Manifestos in the United Kingdom
Elodie Fabre, Enric Martínez-Herrera

13. Concluding Observations
Wilfried Swenden, Bart Maddens

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, European Politics, Political Science, Comparative Politics