Mazzoleni Oscar - Regionalist parties in Western Europe: dimensions of success

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Names: Mazzoleni, Oscar, editor. | Mueller, Sean, editor.

Title: Regionalist parties in Western Europe : dimensions of success /

edited by Oscar Mazzoleni, Sean Mueller.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016011580 | ISBN 9781472477545 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781315604466 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: RegionalismPolitical aspectsEurope, Western. |

Political partiesEurope, Western.

Classification: LCC JN94.A38 R43685 2016 | DDC 324.2/184094dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011580

ISBN: 978-1-4724-7754-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-60446-6 (ebk)

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Oscar Barber has been Associate Professor at the University of Valencia since 2009. His main interests include political parties, political elites and decentralisation in comparative perspective. He has published extensively on Spanish political parties with Routledge, Oxford University Press and Ashgate/Nomos.

Astrid Barrio is Associate Professor at the University of Valencia. She has published extensively on Convergncia i Uni and has written numerous book chapters and articles on the subject that have appeared in Revista Espaola de Ciencia Poltica as well as REIS Revista de Investigaciones Sociolgicas . Her research interests also extend to nationalism, party membership, party funding and political elites. Her latest works have been published, amongst others, in Ple Sud , French Politics and South European Society and Politics .

Lynn Bennie is Reader in Politics at the University of Aberdeen, an institution she joined in 1996. In 2012 she published a monograph on the SNP (with James Mitchell and Robert Johns) with Oxford University Press. Other articles of hers have been published in Political Studies , Party Politics , and Electoral Studies . Her research expertise spans the areas of political participation, green politics, British political parties, and Scottish politics.

Roberto Biorcio is Professor of Political Science at the Universit degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. His main research interests lie with political participation, parties, social movements, electoral behaviour, and social capital. He is a specialist on both the Italian party system and Northern Italy. His books on Padania, the Lega Lombarda, and the Lega Nord, as well as on the Italian Green Party, were published in Italian and he has contributed to volumes edited by F. Mller-Rommel, I. Diamanti, and H.D. Klingemann, amongst others.

Oscar Mazzoleni is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Research Observatory for Regional Politics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His main interests include political parties and Swiss politics in a comparative perspective. He recently published the book Understanding Populist Party Organisation (co-edited, Palgrave-MacMillan 2016), chapters in edited volumes with Nomos, and Routledge, and articles in Government and Opposition , Party Politics , Regional and Federal Studies, Swiss Political Science Review , and Contemporary Italian Politics , amongst others.

Sean Mueller is Lecturer at the University of Berne, Switzerland. His latest books include Theorising Decentralisation (ECPR Press, 2015) and Understanding Federalism and Federation (co-edited, Ashgate, 2015). His articles have appeared in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regional & Federal Studies, European Political Science Review, Government and Opposition, The Journal of Public Policy, Electoral Studies, the Swiss Political Science Review, Space and Polity, and LEurope en Formation.

Gnther Pallaver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Inns-bruck, Austria. One of his areas of expertise is the German-speaking Italian region of South Tyrol and its politics. Amongst others, he has written for the Austrian Journal of Political Science , the Swiss Political Science Review , Regional & Federal Studies , Politische Vierteljahresschrift, and Quaderni dellOsservatorio elettorale, and he has contributed chapters to edited volumes published by Routledge, Peter Lang, Nomos, Continuum, Springer, and Il Mulino.

Emilie van Haute is Associate Professor and Adjunct Director at the Centre dtude de la vie politique (Cevipol), Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her books on parties, party systems, and organisation have been published with Routledge and Les Editions de lUniversit de Bruxelles, while her articles have appeared in Party Politics, Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, and Regional & Federal Studies . She is the co-editor of ECPR/Oxford University Press Comparative Politics Series.

Claudius Wagemann is Professor of Social Sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His publication list includes articles that have appeared in The European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Sociology, and German Politics as well as co-authored books on QCA methodology (with Cambridge University Press) and the mobilisation of extreme right activists (with Oxford University Press).