Catch-all Politics under Stress – Non-territorially Defined Parties and the Quest for Symmetry and Compromise in Territorial Reforms

The paper focuses on a neglected group of territorial politics: the dominant non-territorially defined political parties, mainly catch-all parties of Christian Democratic or Social Democratic origin. In contrast to regionalist parties, they do not have incentives for territorial reforms, yet they ar...

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Main Authors: Dominic Heinz, Eike-Christian Hornig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2012-07-01
Series:Central European Journal of Public Policy
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Online Access:http://www.cejpp.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/98