Challenging the state : devolution and the battle for partisan credibility : a comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom / Sonia Alonso
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
Descript
xiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Centre-periphery party competition -- Political devolution and credibility constraints -- Parties and voters in two dimensions: a first examination of the landscape -- Emergence of a peripheral party threat -- Devolution: making electoral moves credible -- State parties' electoral strategies after devolution -- Peripheral parties' electoral strategies after devolution