Author: Margarita Gómez-Reino File Type: pdf 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 Arenawill be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology and political science. Itcontributes to the increasing literature on identity politics in the European Union and reveals themechanisms behindwhy the European arena is adverse to the political translation and organization ofdomestic nationalisms as distinctive European actors. **Review With minority nationalist political parties politically ascendant in the UK and Spain and populist nationalist parties disrupting embedded party systems across much of contemporary Europe the appearance of Nationalisms in the European Arena could hardly be timelier. In offering an original framework within which the structuring of nationalist political party families in the context of the European cleavage and the respective degrees of Europeanization achieved by minority and populist nationalist party families can be fruitfully analyzed, this insightful book fills a conspicuous gap in the existing literature. As a source of insight into these nationalist party families it is unlikely to be eclipsed anytime soon. (Anthony M. Messina, Trinity College, USA) Analyses on nationalist parties and European integration have focused either on statewide populist parties or on minority political actors. Gomez-Reinos book has the special interest of comparatively studying the programmatic positions and institutional strategies of these two types of actors. In so doing, Gomez-Reino has contributed an innovative, encompassing, and enriching study of the intertwining logics of nationalism and political contestation in Europe. (Ivan 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, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium) From the Back Cover 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 Arenawill be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology and political science. Itcontributes to the increasing literature on identity politics in the European Union and reveals themechanisms behindwhy the European arena is adverse to the political translation and organization ofdomestic nationalisms as distinctive European actors.

Author: Elizabeth J. Perry File Type: pdf How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists creative development and deployment of cultural resources during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful cultural positioning and cultural patronage, on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly Chinese. Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of political correctness in the Peoples Republic of China. Once known as Chinas Little Moscow, Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future. **