Handbook of territorial politics / edited by Klaus Detterbeck (Senior Researcher, Institute of Political Science, Georg-August-University G ttingen, Germany), and Eve Hepburn (Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Europa Institute, Founding Chief Executive of Fearless Femme and Founding Director of PolicyScribe, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Detterbeck, Klaus, editor.

Hepburn, Eve, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Political aspects.

Boundaries.

Boundaries--Economic aspects.

Territory, National--Political aspects.

Territory, National.

Territory, National--economic aspects.

Boundary disputes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Incorporated, 2018.

Summary:

Territory continues to be an essential part of modern political discussion, evidenced in the recent decentralization of state structures and rise of sub-state nationalist and regionalist parties. With extensive empirical evidence alongside contemporary theory, this multidisciplinary Handbook makes the case for an outright rejection of state-centric views on territorial politics. Original research by political scientists, geographers, sociologists, lawyers, historians and public policy specialists demonstrates how territory continues to have an impact across institutional and political structures, as well as on culture, identity and citizenship. Over four sections, contributions cover institutions and ideas; elections and political parties; public policy concerns; and geographical perspectives, including conflict resolution and gendered approaches to territorial politics. With perspectives from European, North American, Sub-Saharan African, South Asian and Australasian case studies, Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn provide a state-of-the-art international Handbook of Territorial Politics. Incorporating public policy, comparative politics, multilevel governance and political geography, this Handbook provides scholars and students with a compelling collection on territorial politics that will prove invaluable.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction to the handbook of territorial politics / Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck

Part I: Institutions, actors and ideas

2. Rescaling the European State. A constructivist and political perspective / Michael Keating

3. Federal, Devolved or decentralized state - on the territorial architecture of power / Nathalie Behnke

4. Challenges of interdependence and coordination in federal systems / Nicole Bolleyer

5. Multilevel governance / Simona Piattoni

6. 'Gendering' territorial politics / Jill Vickers

7. Decentralization as a tool for conflict resolution / Soeren Keil and Paul Anderson

Part II: Elections, parties and political culture

8. De-nationalization of elections? Tracing the developments in the conceptualization and measurement of the nationalization of the vote / Arjan Schakel

9. Statewide Parties in Western and Eastern Europe: territorial patterns of party organizations / Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn

10. Ethno-regionalist parties / Lieven de Winter, Peter Lynch and Marga Gomez

11. Multilevel party competition: a theory of territorial contagion / Eve Hepburn

12. Political careers and territorial politics / Klaus Stolz

13. Multiple territorial identities and multi-level polities / Luis Moreno

14. Regional citizenship in a system of plural memberships and multilevel rights / Lorenzo Piccoli

Part III: Territorial public policies

15. Education Policy in Canada and the United States: dispersed governance or centralization? / Sandra Vergari

16. Health policy and territorial politics: disciplinary misunderstandings and directions for research / Scott Greer

17. Territorial politics and environmental policy: a comparison of findings about climate change and resource management policies / Sonja W alti

18. Immigration and sub-state nations: researching the Nexus / Ilke Adam

19. Regions beyond the state: external relations and paradiplomacy / Micha el Tatham

20. Comparative perspectives on the territorial politics of fiscal federalism: Canada, Australia, and the United States / Daniel Beland and Andr e Lecours

21. Territorial politics and economic development / John Agnew and Agostino Mantegna

22. Territorial reform policies in federal and multilevel systems / C esar Colino

Part IV: Geographical perspectives

23. Actor-centered or institutional approaches in Europe and the U.S.: moving toward convergence / Carol S. Weissert and Kevin Fahey

24. Comparative territorial politics in sub-Saharan Africa / Jan Erk

25. Territorial politics in South Asia: between territorial accommodation and majoritarianism / Wilfried Swenden

26. Territorial politics and the federal frame in Australia / Nicholas Aroney and Campbell Sharman

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781784718770 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.