Restructuring the State
Mainstream Responses to Regional Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7364582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Toubeau (0000-0002-2738-9293, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-101 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/publius/pjx057 |
| OpenAlex | W2766684966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 45 |
Under what conditions are ‘holding-together’ federations created? And what shapes the development of their territorial structures? This article answers these questions through a comparative-historical analysis of territorial restructuring in Belgium, Spain and the UK. It shows that ‘holding-together’ federations are created during a critical juncture opened by a surge of regional nationalism and that the strategic responses of mainstream parties to this threat are conditioned by their ideology. These constitutional settlements put countries on a path of institutional development that is conditioned by mainstream parties’ ideational adaptation to the political foundations of the federation and by their power in the system of inter-governmental relations. Even when regionalist parties regain control of the agenda, mainstream parties’ ideological adherence to the norms enshrined in the constitutions, coupled with their resilient power in the system of inter-governmental relations, means that institutional change is gradual. These insights bear relevance for institutional theory and for comparative federalism
Federalism · Ideology · Mainstream · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Restructuring · Sociology · State (computer science · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Systems and Governance · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Law
Unruly Reform
State nationalism and territorial accommodation in Spain and India
Telangana and the politics of State formation in India
Measuring evolving regional autonomy demands and statutes
Support for Regionalization in Federal Belgium
Territorial Politics and Institutional Change
The Effect of Institutional Affiliation and Career Patterns on (De)centralization Preferences in Advanced Multi-Level States
Federalization in the slipstream
The Global Trend towards Devolution and its Implications
Constitutional Design
Federalism and Territorial Cleavages
Renegotiating Sovereignty
British Devolution and the Labour Party
The Partisan Logic of Decentralization in Europe
Coalition Formation and Congruence in a Multi-layered Setting
Regional Nationalist Parties and Constitutional Change in Parliamentary Democracies
Party Organization in a Multi-level System
Multi-level Coalitions and Statute Reform in Spain
The Future of Belgian Federalism
Political Decentralization, Electoral Change and Party Organizational Adaptation
Political Parties in Multi-Layered Systems
The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe
Regional Parties and National Politics in Europe
Federalism and Democracy
Does Belgium (still) exist? Differences in political culture between Flemings and Walloons
Renegotiating the State of Autonomies
The Politics of Constitutional Change between Reform and Evolution
Negotiating Territorial Change in Multinational States
Pathways of Federal Reform
Non State-wide Parties in Spain
Constitutional Change Without Constitutional Reform
Institutional Resilience Meets Critical Junctures
Explaining Territorial Change in Federal Democracies
Thresholds of State Change
Social Constituency and Ideological Profile
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Ravages of “Market Bolshevism
New Structuralism and Institutional Change
Informative Regress
Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis
When Do Institutions “Bite”? Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change
Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis
Federalism and Political Change
Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics
The Study of Critical Junctures
Introduction
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
What is Spanish nationalism today? From legitimacy crisis to unfulfilled renovation (1975-2000)
Path dependence in historical sociology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |