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The Territorial Imperative - Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis (Paperback)
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The Territorial Imperative - Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis (Paperback)
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The Territorial Imperative explores a growing area of interest in
comparative political economy - the interaction of politics and
economics at the mesolevel of the polity. Noting the ubiquity of
regional economic disparities within advanced industrial
democracies, Jeffrey Anderson undertakes a sophisticated analysis
of the complex political conflicts that are generated by declining
regional economies, and involve myriad actors across multiple
levels of the polity. In this study of political responses to
regional crisis, the principal theoretical focus centers on the
impact of constitutional orders as bona fide political
institutions. On the basis of a carefully constructed comparison of
four declining industrial regions within a broader cross-national
comparison of unitary Britain and federal Germany, Anderson
concludes that constitutional orders as institutions do in fact
matter. In short, the territorial distribution of power,
encapsulated in the federal-unitary distinction, is shown to
exercise a strong political logic of influence on the distribution
of interests and resources among subnational and national actors
and on the strategies of cooperation and conflict available to
them. In the course of the study, Anderson brings together in a
creative manner theories of intergovernmental and center-periphery
relations, corporatism, pluralism, and the state. His book provides
new insights into more than just mesolevel politics; indeed, the
explicit focus on the political economy of regions calls into
question aspects of the conventional wisdom on British and German
politics, based for the most part on national-level studies. Viewed
in the context of widespread optimism surrounding thefuture of
regions in a post-1992 Europe, Anderson's findings also underscore
the need for caution when assessing the horizons of action for
subnational interests in advanced industrial democracies. Offering
an innovative theoretical approach grounded in comparative
empirical research, The Territorial Imperative will be welcomed by
political economists, scholars and students of comparative
politics, sociology, and public policy, political geographers, and
economists and historians interested in Western Europe.
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