Eve Hepburn is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores party responses to multi-level governance, dynamics of regional party systems, and decentralisation in the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada. She has published widely in the field, and is the author of Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system (Manchester University Press, 2010).

• 1. Introduction: Re-conceptualising Sub-state Mobilization Eve Hepburn 2. Explaining Regionalist Party Positioning in a Multidimensional Ideological Space: A Framework for Analysis Emanuele Massetti 3. From Protest to Power: Mapping the Ideological Evolution of Plaid Cymru and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego Anwen Elias 4. The Rise and Fall of the Belgian Regionalist Parties Kris Deschouwer 5. A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany Dan Hough and Michael Koß 6. Explaining Failure: The Highs and Lows of Sardinian Nationalism Eve Hepburn 7. From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting Peter Lynch 8. New Research Agendas on Regional Party Competition Charlie Jeffery

Eve Hepburn is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores party responses to multi-level governance, dynamics of regional party systems, and decentralisation in the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada. She has published widely in the field, and is the author of Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system (Manchester University Press, 2010).

• 1. Introduction: Re-conceptualising Sub-state Mobilization Eve Hepburn 2. Explaining Regionalist Party Positioning in a Multidimensional Ideological Space: A Framework for Analysis Emanuele Massetti 3. From Protest to Power: Mapping the Ideological Evolution of Plaid Cymru and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego Anwen Elias 4. The Rise and Fall of the Belgian Regionalist Parties Kris Deschouwer 5. A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany Dan Hough and Michael Koß 6. Explaining Failure: The Highs and Lows of Sardinian Nationalism Eve Hepburn 7. From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting Peter Lynch 8. New Research Agendas on Regional Party Competition Charlie Jeffery

Eve Hepburn is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores party responses to multi-level governance, dynamics of regional party systems, and decentralisation in the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada. She has published widely in the field, and is the author of Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system (Manchester University Press, 2010).

• 1. Introduction: Re-conceptualising Sub-state Mobilization Eve Hepburn 2. Explaining Regionalist Party Positioning in a Multidimensional Ideological Space: A Framework for Analysis Emanuele Massetti 3. From Protest to Power: Mapping the Ideological Evolution of Plaid Cymru and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego Anwen Elias 4. The Rise and Fall of the Belgian Regionalist Parties Kris Deschouwer 5. A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany Dan Hough and Michael Koß 6. Explaining Failure: The Highs and Lows of Sardinian Nationalism Eve Hepburn 7. From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting Peter Lynch 8. New Research Agendas on Regional Party Competition Charlie Jeffery