@article {23927, title = {Determinants of Regional Political Distinctiveness}, journal = {Nationalism and Ethnic Politics}, volume = {22}, number = {2}, year = {2016}, pages = {119-148}, abstract = {Scholarly research exploring the phenomenon of regional distinctiveness in Europe, since at least the 1960s, has generated a variety of competing theories to explain the phenomenon, including the following: the persistence of linguistic distinctiveness; the impact of economic distinctiveness; and remoteness. Often these studies operationalize {\textquotedblleft}regional distinctiveness{\textquotedblright} in different ways, impeding the evaluation of different types of theories against one another. This study develops a novel measure for regional distinctiveness, applied to 161 regions in 11 European countries from 1990{\textendash}2014, and demonstrates that language, economics, and remoteness work through regional parties to generate regional political distinctiveness, while only linguistic distinctiveness also has a direct effect on such distinctiveness.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2016.1169057}, author = {Cartrite, Britt and Miodownik, Dan} }