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How much territorial (a)symmetry is there in multi-level party politics? This chapter is to analyse the similarities and differences in party competition at various political levels. In comparing developments over time, we will be able to establish whether differentiation between substate entities and between territorial levels has grown over time, as hypothesized by the notions of ‘denationalization’ and ‘reterritorialization’. Both terms imply that recent developments have eroded the former congruence of territorial levels (Jeffery and Hough 2003; see Chapter 1). As developed in Chapter 5, we will study the electoral, party systemic and governmental dimensions of competition.
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© 2012 Klaus Detterbeck
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Detterbeck, K. (2012). Multi-Level Party Competition. In: Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017857_6
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