By Lieven De Winter, Huri Tursan
The trade-off research over the regionalistic events in Europe, present of the editors, is a novel politics-scientific manufacturing facility, which is aware to record within the so much diversified information over it. started of the "Sudtiroler Volkspartei" as much as the baskischen minority occasion the authors result in extra particular information over the events and clarify why and which function have performed and should play such social gathering kinds sooner or later in Europe.
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It can indeed be supposed that an accumulated evaluation of the policy stands of the parties and individual leaders has a substantial effect on the voting behaviour of ethnoregionalist parties’ followers. And yet, supposedly rational voters are guided in their electoral behaviour not merely ‘retrospectively’ by the substantive policies of the competing parties, but also ‘prospectively’ in relation to the parties’ future political direction as foreshadowed in party programmes and public statements (Müller-Rommel 1990).
Eventually, Dutch became the only official language in Flanders. 1 Other measures guaranteeing a fair(er) representation of Flemings in the state apparatus were taken. Finally, demands for cultural and political ‘autonomy’ were voiced. Conversely, Wallonia declined in economic terms after the Second World War. While the post-war industrialisation of Flanders was based on small and medium-sized enterprises and multinationals, Wallonia’s economy was based on heavy industry, and slowly started to de-industrialise.
Overall, the development and centre-periphery approaches suggest that the existence of ethnoregionalist groups is caused by failures of the modernisation and nation-building process or—more precisely—by the durability of a segmental society. Although these approaches may be applicable for explaining the emergence of ethnoregionalist groups, they nevertheless cannot predict the relative electoral strength of these parties in single European party systems. Competitive approach According to the competitive approach the re-emergence of ethnoregionalist parties and their electoral success are caused not by a failure of modernisation but by its success.
