THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE RISE OF REGIONALIST PARTIES

Rather than weakening the forces of nationalism among member states, the expanding power of the European Union actually fosters cond itions favorable to regionalist movements within traditional nation-states. Using a cross-national, quantitative study of the advent of regionalist political parties and their success in national parliamentary elections since the 1960s, along with a detailed case study of the fortunes of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, Seth K. Jolly demonstrates that supranational integration and subnatio...[Read more]