@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}
}
