TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of Regional Political Distinctiveness
AU - Cartrite, Britt
AU - Miodownik, Dan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/4/2
Y1 - 2016/4/2
N2 - Scholarly research exploring the phenomenon of regional distinctiveness in Europe, since at least the 1960s, has generated a variety of competing theories to explain the phenomenon, including the following: the persistence of linguistic distinctiveness; the impact of economic distinctiveness; and remoteness. Often these studies operationalize “regional distinctiveness” in different ways, impeding the evaluation of different types of theories against one another. This study develops a novel measure for regional distinctiveness, applied to 161 regions in 11 European countries from 1990–2014, and demonstrates that language, economics, and remoteness work through regional parties to generate regional political distinctiveness, while only linguistic distinctiveness also has a direct effect on such distinctiveness.
AB - Scholarly research exploring the phenomenon of regional distinctiveness in Europe, since at least the 1960s, has generated a variety of competing theories to explain the phenomenon, including the following: the persistence of linguistic distinctiveness; the impact of economic distinctiveness; and remoteness. Often these studies operationalize “regional distinctiveness” in different ways, impeding the evaluation of different types of theories against one another. This study develops a novel measure for regional distinctiveness, applied to 161 regions in 11 European countries from 1990–2014, and demonstrates that language, economics, and remoteness work through regional parties to generate regional political distinctiveness, while only linguistic distinctiveness also has a direct effect on such distinctiveness.
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U2 - 10.1080/13537113.2016.1169057
DO - 10.1080/13537113.2016.1169057
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AN - SCOPUS:84970031473
SN - 1353-7113
VL - 22
SP - 119
EP - 148
JO - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
JF - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
IS - 2
ER -