The new regionalism in Western Europe : territorial restructuring and political change /
This text traces the historical origins of regionalism, showing that theoretical politics has always been a feature of the West-European state. The book then analyzes the post-war model of territorial management in the Keynesian welfare state.
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. :
E. Elgar,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Territory and Politics
- In search of territory
- The creation of place
- Regions--the elusive space
- Regions and State-building in Western Europe
- The formation of the nation-state
- State and nation-building
- The state and territorial oppositions
- The territorial state
- Regions in the Welfare State
- The postwar settlement
- Regions and politics
- The politics of regional development
- Regions from the bottom-up
- The move to regional government
- Establishing regional government
- Italy
- France
- The United Kingdom
- Spain
- Belgium
- The modernization of regions
- The New Regionalism
- The changing context
- The construction of regions
- Territorial space
- Functional space
- Regional culture
- Regional identity
- Regions, parties and voting
- Social space
- The politics of regionalism
- The invention of regions
- Regional Government
- Models of regional government
- Constitutional status
- Functions
- Finance
- Bureaucracy
- Political capacity
- Intergovernmental Relations
- Regions and networks of power
- The Political Economy of Regionalism
- Economic restructuring
- Regional development policies. The new paradigm
- The construction of a development model
- Development coalitions
- Territory
- Institutions
- Leadership
- Social composition
- Culture
- External linkages
- Development strategies
- Regions in an Integrated Europe
- Regionalism and Europe
- Formulating an interest
- Channels of access
- The Commission and the regions.