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Dr Klaus Detterbeck (Magdeburg) & Dr Eve Hepburn (Edinburgh)

Party Politics in Multi-Layered Systems An analytical framework of multi-level party politics for Western and Eastern Europe. Dr Klaus Detterbeck (Magdeburg) & Dr Eve Hepburn (Edinburgh). MAIN FINDINGS:. The ‘ Territorial Rescaling’ of Parties. Indicators of party territorial rescaling:

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Dr Klaus Detterbeck (Magdeburg) & Dr Eve Hepburn (Edinburgh)

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  1. Party Politics in Multi-Layered SystemsAn analytical framework of multi-level party politics for Western and Eastern Europe Dr Klaus Detterbeck (Magdeburg) & Dr Eve Hepburn (Edinburgh)

  2. MAIN FINDINGS:

  3. The ‘Territorial Rescaling’ of Parties Indicators of party territorial rescaling: • Stronger territorial identity and rhetoric • Increasing support for const’l autonomy • Organisational and policy differentiation of regional branch from the centre • New forms of power-sharing within party

  4. Determining party responses to MLG Two dimensions: • Strength of joint decision-making structures. • State-regional linkages (meetings of leaders, joint committees, regional officials in state executive) • Degree of autonomy of regional branches • Regional control over candidate and leadership selection, campaigns, coalitions and finance.

  5. Strong Consensualist parties Federalist parties Joint Decision-Making Confederalist parties Decentralist parties Centralist parties Weak Bifurcated parties Regional Autonomy High Low

  6. German SPD, Austrian SPÖ (until the 1990s) Strong German CDU, Belgian CDV (until 1970s) Joint Decision-Making Austrian ÖVP Scottish and Welsh Labour (since 2001), PSOE, Italian Democratic Party Forza Italia, Spanish PP, Russian UR, Czech ODS, Ukraine Party of the Regions Weak Belgian CD&V and CDH (since 1970s) Regional Autonomy autonomy High Low

  7. Explaining variance in party responses • Party Ideology • State Design • Party Constitutional Aims • Existence of NSWPs • Territorial Identity and Interests

  8. Conclusion: de-nationalising parties? • Parties have traditionally claimed to represent citizens by appealing to a common political vision • In multilevel states it has become difficult tocommit the party as a whole to a single policy programme • But whilst some parties have sought to reflect new power divisions of the state in their own organisational strategies, others believe only a united party will underpin a unified state

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