Abstract
Introduction: the political subjectivity of subnational units can be realized both through regional autonomy and self-rule and through the region participation in shared-rule and determining the national policy. Such institutional capabilities of regions to participate in regional and national political process are unevenly distributed within European regions. Subnational regional units of European nation-states, which have a significant regionalist potential, predominantly lobby the demands of regional autonomy, and often leave unarticulated the demands of region participation in the policymaking at the national level. Objectives: to determine the role of subnational regionalism (understood as a political movement aimed at acquiring and expanding the political subjectivity of the region) as a factor of the dynamics of shared-rule institutional capabilities of European regions in the 2000–2010s. Methods: Large-N comparative analysis of subnational units. Results: the analysis of 116 regions demonstrates a low level of dynamics of the shared-rule institutional capabilities in 2000–2010s. The changes in the institutional “centre-regions” interactions have been observed only in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Serbia and Switzerland. The importance of subnational regionalism as an institutional dynamics factor in the cases under studies is indirect, situational, and insignificant. The influence of subnational regionalism on the change in the shared-rule has not been registered. Conclusions: despite the conditions of low dynamics in the 2000–2010s, the configurations of the institutional capabilities of European regions acquire the features of stability and sustainability. The variability of such configurations (symmetric, asymmetric universal, asymmetric autonomous) can be associated with subnational regionalism. Devolution of institutional capability to regional level (as a political instrument of central government) depends on the strength of regionalism and the level of regionalist demands.
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