Economics, Political Economy, Business & Finance, Political Science 

CASS Series in Regional and Federal Studies  

This book examines the effect on region of economic and political restructuring in Europe and North America. The main theses are: international economic restructuring and its impact on regions; political restructuring at the supranational , national and regional level; questions of territorial identity; policy choices and policy conflicts in regional development.
the first part of the book treats a number of theme treats a number of themes in the political economy of regionalism from theoretical and comparative perspectives. the second part comprises case studies of regions which illustrate these developments in a detailed fashion. the case studies are mainly based in Western Europe and North America but include examples from non-European countries such as Australia where members of the group have found parallel themes.
Published in association with the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, this book is essential reading for political scientists, geographers, and economists, as well as practitioners with an interest in the regional question today. 

Examining the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North America, the main themes here are: international economic restructuring; political realignments questions of territorial identity; and policy choices and policy conflicts in regional development. - from Amzon 

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES

1. The Political Economy of Regionalism by Michael Keating...........................P.17

2. State Traditions, administrative reform and regionalization BY
John Loughlin and B. Guy Peters............................................................P. 47

3. Regional policy and European governance by Richard Balme

4. New dimensions of regional policy in Western Europe John Bachtler

5. Regionalism - an international relations perspective Brian Hocking

6. Territory, identity and language Colin H. Williams

7. Regional planning and urban governance in Europe and the USA
Urlan Wannop

8. Restructuring work and identity - perspectives on region, class and
gender in Southern Europe by Winnie Lem

9.NAFTA regional impacts by David W. Conklin

10. Metropolitan regions in Australia by Liz Fulop

11. When nationalism meets continentalism - the politics of free trade
in Quebec by Pierre Martin

12. Regional economic development and political mechanisms -
Western Pennsylvania in comparative perspective by B. Guy Peters

13. Regions in the new Germany Roland Sturm

14. The Euro-region and the C-6 network - the new politics of subnational
co-operation in the West Mediterranean area by Francesco Morata

15. Local political classes and economic development - the cases of Abruzzo
and Puglia in the 1970s and 1980s by Simona Piattoni

16. France - from the regionalized state to the emergence of
regional governance? by Bernard Jouve

17. Regional reform in the Netherlands - reorganizing the
viscous state by Frank Hendriks

18. Wales - a developing political economy by Barry Jones

19. Scotland, the Union State and the international environment
by James Mitchell

20. The North of England and the Europe of the regions, or when
is a region not a region? Howard Elcock