Challenging the State: Western European Regionalism in the Era of Financial Crisis

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Abstract: The Global Financial Crisis and its aftershocks have substantially altered the Western European political landscape. But while the literature has extensively focused on the impacts of the economic hardship on traditional party competition, it has often failed to consider the center-periphery dimension. This thesis addresses both the demand for and supply of regionalist ideologies during the crisis. Using an original dataset containing 8 countries, 35 regions, and 128 regionalist parties, it finds that voters did not increase their support for regionalist parties during the crisis and may have even turned their backs on these political actors. In addition, I consider the reactions of regionalist parties in three Spanish autonomous communities, Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia, to the crisis. I find evidence of regionalist mobilization on the issue and even some indications of radicalization of regionalist demands. Taken together, these findings raise interesting implications for the impacts of the financial crisis and the interaction between economic indicators, party competition, and voting patterns.

Author	Scheibler, Adrian
Thesis advisor	Crombez, Christophe
Department	The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
Degree granting institution	Stanford University

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/mv626xk6159, https://doi.org/10.25740/mv626xk6159
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mv626xk6159

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Preferred citation: Scheibler, Adrian. (2022). Challenging the State: Western European Regionalism in the Era of Financial Crisis. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/mv626xk6159

Stanford University, Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. (CDDRL)

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