Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The quest for a regional political class; 2. Regionalism, regionalisation and regional institutions in Catalonia and Scotland: setting the stagefor a regional political class; 3. Political careers: the making of a regional political class in itself; 4. (Re)making political institutions: a regional political class for itself; 5. Conclusion: traces of a regional political class in Catalonia and Scotland; Appendix 1Survey of regional parliamentarians in Catalonia and Scotland
Appendix 2 Interview series with Catalan and Scottish politiciansAppendix 3 Time commitments of regional politicians; References
Summary
Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland. The study deals with two different yet closely related sets of questions: Firstly, how do professional politicians pursue their careers in the regional context. And secondly, how do they shape and reshape the political institutions in which they pursue these careers. The monograph is based on extensive empirical research including a comprehensive data set on the careers
