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Is peripheral nationalism on the rise in European policies?
This research investigates the changing politics of parties claiming
nationhood for territorial minorities in Spain, France, Italy
and Belgium since the 1970s. It links the analysis of the politics
of identity with the study of different styles of political mobilization,
strategies and goals attached to claims of nationhood.
The project focuses on three different levels of analysis.
- First, it examines how party elites define and modernize the
identities of “peripheral nations,” studying the changing
criteria of inclusion of exclusion in larger political bodies
along two main dimensions: different national-state models of
pluralism and institutional recognition of cultural differences,
and the launching of European integration.
- Second, variation in the programs and ideological profile
of these parties is analyzed, assessing the conditions
that affect the spatial location of these parties in relationship
with the main ideological conflicts in national party systems.
- Third, it examines the electoral performance of these parties
and the determinants that make identities a successful alternative
principle of political action and electoral competition.
In particular, the project explores the different political opportunity
structures offered by electoral de-alignment in the past two decades
and cases of success and failure in the consolidation of peripheral
nationalism in European party systems
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