The Maritime and Border Regions of Western Europe

Corner, Trevor

doi:10.1080/0305006880240207

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“…However, a range of other scholars emphasize that physical remoteness remains a significant factor affecting the emergence and success of regional parties and consequently regional distinctiveness despite such technological innovation. Trevor Corner 22 highlights the persistence of cultural distinctiveness, economic underdevelopment, and relative political isolation of remote, particularly insular, regions in Europe despite decades of policies across many European states to reduce such disparities. Indeed, the European Union has specifically targeted remote regions as areas where economic convergence remains the most problematic.…”

Section: Antecedents Of Distinctivenessmentioning

confidence: 98%

Determinants of Regional Political Distinctiveness

Cartrite

Miodownik

2016

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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Scholarly research exploring the phenomenon of regional distinctiveness in Europe, since at least the 1960s, has generated a variety of competing theories to explain the phenomenon, including the following: the persistence of linguistic distinctiveness; the impact of economic distinctiveness; and remoteness. Often these studies operationalize "regional distinctiveness" in different ways, impeding the evaluation of different types of theories against one another. This study develops a novel measure for regional distinctiveness, applied to 161 regions in 11 European countries from 1990-2014, and demonstrates that language, economics, and remoteness work through regional parties to generate regional political distinctiveness, while only linguistic distinctiveness also has a direct effect on such distinctiveness.

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Section: Antecedents Of Distinctivenessmentioning

confidence: 98%