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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Regions and the Dynamics of Political Space
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The Region as a Space of Mobilisation
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The Region as Functional Space
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The Region as Space of Governance
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Reviews
'This is the definitive English-language study of regions and regionalism in France. It is both historically informed and up to date. Pasquier provides us with a sophisticated analysis of the growing importance of territory in public policy and politics, even in a traditionally centralized state like France.'
Michael Keating, Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
'This is an excellent book, which combines meticulous empirical detail which a sophisticated theoretical framework for understanding regional political institutions and capacity building in France. It has a comparative and multi-level dimension that makes it all the more significant. The book is impressive in its reach, its depth and its significance. The French region is understood as lying at the confluence of three distinct levels of analysis: as a scale for political mobilisation, as a level of government in a multilayered polity, and as a functional space for reforms driven by the French state and the European Union. Far from the tired stereotypes of the one and indivisble Republic, Pasquier illustrates French sub-national governance in all its diversity. Romain Pasquier is a leading specialist of regions in France and Europe.'
Alistair Cole, Professor of Politics, Cardiff University, UK and Institute of Political Studies, Lyons, France
'Romain Pasquier is one of the leading French and European scholars researching issues of territorial governance. In this volume he brings to bear on the subject of French regions a superb knowledge of their historical and empirical evolution as well as an acute analysis placing the issue in the wider context of contemporary studies of space, identity, governance and mobilisation. The book is destined to become the classic work in English on French regions.'
Professor John Loughlin, Senior Fellow, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Romain Pasquier is a CNRS Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the 'Centre de recherche sur l'action politique en Europe', Institute of Political Studies, University of Rennes, France. His field of research deals with territorial governance, regionalism and State reform in Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Governance and Power in France
Book Subtitle: The Dynamics of Political Space
Authors: Romain Pasquier
Series Title: French Politics, Society and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137484468
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48445-1Published: 09 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50349-0Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48446-8Published: 14 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-3750
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 227
Topics: Political Science, European Politics, Political Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning