Overview
- Explores the ideological and behavioural adaptation of nationalist parties to the European arena
- Offers specific educational features for the study of party politics in the European Union and the Europeanization of political parties
- Brings together the research on transnational party coordination of nationalist parties with ongoing debates on European Union politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Nationalisms and European Integration
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Europeanization and Trajectories of Transnational Party Coordination
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About this book
This book explores how the multiplicity of nationalist parties across the European Union have embraced or refused the process of European integration and made it a platform for transnational coordination in the European arena. The author analyzes how opposing pro-European minority nationalist parties and Eurosceptic populist nationalist parties have diversely politicized European integration over the past three decades and engage in different patterns of Europeanization. Tracing their divergent trajectories of transnational coordination, the book examines the common challenges these opposing nationalist party families face and their systematic fragmentation in the European arena. The book offers a novel approach to understanding the conditions for the emergence of truly European nationalist party families, based on the interaction of ideological, strategic and institutional variables that underpin the Europeanization of heterogeneous nationalisms.
Nationalisms in the European Arena will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology and political science. It contributes to the increasing literature on identity politics in the European Union and reveals the mechanisms behind why the European arena is adverse to the political translation and organization of domestic nationalisms as distinctive European actors.
Reviews
“Analyses on nationalist parties and European integration have focused either on statewide populist parties or on minority political actors. Gómez-Reino’s book has the specialinterest of comparatively studying the programmatic positions and institutional strategies of these two types of actors. In so doing, Gómez-Reino has contributed an innovative, encompassing, and enriching study of the intertwining logics of nationalism and political contestation in Europe.” (Iván Llamazares, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
“Drawing on a wide variety of qualitative as well as quantitative sources, the author offers a novel theoretical framework and rich empirical analyses of two party families, ethnoregionalist minority parties and far right populist parties that hitherto are analysed separately, and the impact of European integration on their political success at various levels.” (Lieven De Winter, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Margarita Gómez-Reino is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nationalisms in the European Arena
Book Subtitle: Trajectories of Transnational Party Coordination
Authors: Margarita Gómez-Reino
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65951-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65950-3Published: 01 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88137-9Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65951-0Published: 21 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, European Union Politics, European Culture