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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
From class to region : How regionalist parties link (and subsume) left-right into centre-periphery politics
:
How regionalist parties link (and subsume) left-right into centre-periphery politics
Contributor:
Massetti, Emanuele;
Schakel, Arjan H
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2015
Published in:
Party Politics, 21 (2015) 6, Seite 866-886
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/1354068815597577
ISSN:
1354-0688;
1460-3683
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The primary dimension of political contestation for regionalist parties is the centre-periphery dimension but they are pressured to adopt positions on the left-right dimension by competition with state-wide parties. We argue that the relative economic position of a region is a key variable for explaining how regionalist parties adopt left-right positions and link them to the centre-periphery dimension. Based on a quantitative analysis of 74 regionalist parties – distributed in 49 regions and 11 countries – over four decades, we find strong evidence that regionalist parties acting in relatively rich regions tend to adopt a rightist ideology, while regionalist parties acting in relatively poor regions tend to adopt a leftist ideology. A qualitative illustration of two paradigmatic cases, the Lega Nord (LN) and the Scottish National Party (SNP), appears to support our interpretation that left-right orientations are subsumed into centre-periphery politics through the adoption of two ideal types of regionalist discourse: one labelled as ‘bourgeois regionalism’ (Harvie, 1994) and one labelled as ‘internal colonialism’ (Hechter, 1975).