Using Europe: Territorial Party Strategies in a Multi-level System

Introduction: Immigration Policies in Multilevel States

“…Marks and Hooghe (2001) furthermore presented different types of multilevel governance at the EU level and focused their analysis on the EU-state relationship. But since this elaboration of multilevel governance, there have been far fewer examinations of this multilevel perspective at the state/sub-state political level (for some exceptions, see Hepburn, 2010a;Detterbeck, 2012) nor has it ever been examined with regard to the specific area of immigration, which is clearly a crosscutting policy issue that affects both levels (see the seminal comparative work by Joppke and Seidle, 2012).…”

Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties

“…Less attention has been paid to the relations between the European and national as well as the European and regional party structures. The latter having been mainly presented in a study by Hepburn (2010). The relations between European and national party structures were noticed mostly by Deschouwer (2000Deschouwer ( , 2003Deschouwer ( , 2006.…”

An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU: east-west comparisons from a pilot study

“…Research on ethnonationalism in the context of European integration has remained conventionally focused on political © 2014 Association for the Study of Nationalities agency to the detriment of its embeddedness in social groups. There is a vast and growing literature exploring the political strategies of regionalist elites to gain access to the resources of European integration and improve the electoral fortunes of ethnoregionalist parties (ERPs) in their demands for access to government and self-rule (De Winter and Türsan 1998;Elias 2008;Hepburn 2010;Ishiyama and Breuning 1998;Laible 2008;Lynch 1996;Massetti 2009;Rohrschneider and Whitefield 2006;among others). Despite the significantly more visible perspective of focusing on ethnoregional parties, the study of nationalities represents a viable agenda defined by broader demands for territorial and non-territorial autonomy, self-rule, and representation, some of which are not politically mobilized.…”