Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Regionalist Parties in Western Europe
1.1 Comparative Framework
1.2 Concepts and Definitions
1.3 Classifying Regionalist Parties
1.4 Rising Regionalists?
1.5 Discussion
2. The Viability of Regionalist Parties
2.1 Regionalist Mobilization in Western Europe
2.2 European Integration and the Viability of Small States
2.3 Preferences Matter, but Which Preferences?
2.4 Alternative Theories
2.5 Research Design
2.6 Discussion
3. Regionalist Political Party Success
3.1 Modeling Regionalist Party Success
3.2 Where Do Regionalist Parties Compete?
3.3 Does European Integration Affect Regionalist Party Incidence?
3.4 What Explains Regionalist Party Success?
3.5 Discussion
4. Euroskeptic and Europhile Regionalists
4.1 Competing Hypotheses
4.2 Data and Methods
4.3 The Regionalists and the EU
4.4 Analysis
4.5 The SNP and the “Independence in Europe” Policy
4.6 Discussion
5. Public Support for the EU and Decentralization
5.1 Citizens and the Viability Theory
5.2 Support for European Integration
5.3 Scotland
5.4 The Scottish Referenda on Devolution
5.5 Similar Preferences, Different Outcomes?
5.6 Discussion
Conclusion
A. Regionalist Party Vote Shares, by Country
B. Cultural Difference by Language Families
C.1 Incidence
C.2 Success
C.3 Combined Incidence and Success Models
C.4 Discussion
D. Survey Questions
References
Index