SPECIAL ISSUE
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Scantamburlo Matthias
    Partiti e autodeterminazione in Südtirol/Alto Adige: competizione etnica e strategie dei partiti tra autonomia e secessione
    in Nazioni e Regioni , n. 7 ,  2016 ,  47-70
    Since the settlement of the controversy on the «South Tyrol question» in 1992, ethnic politics in Alto Adige/Südtirol has deeply changed. Since then, the compromise system implemented to soften the centrifugal tendencies has begun to lose its balance, due to the pressures for secession coming from the German intra ethnic arena. Adopting a strategic perspective towards self-determination, the present study analyzes the evolution of the strategies of South Tyrol ethno-regionalist parties with regard to the territorial and European dimension of the electoral competition. In line with the new researches on party strategies, it is shown that ethnic parties not only do possess the strategic ability to take up a position on various aspects of the competition, but they are also able to reformulate them in new terms. While the salient ethnic competition in South Tyrol has led to a new territorial frame, the pro-EU consensus has taken the form of a positional conflict. Full text available online download
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