Pomiędzy ruchem społecznym w skali regionalnej a protopartią i partią regionalną. Kilka refleksji na tle zmian reprezentacji politycznej w regionach Europy

Abstract

The article is a reflection resulting from the observation of the changes affecting the functioning of the European democracies since the second half of the 20th century. The question of how regional political parties are formed is analysed from the view point of sociology and anthropology of politics and not only taking normative determinants into account. It is rather difficult to decide which of the ways to introduce and adopt regulation on regional political representation is better and allows realizing social needs. The author focuses on such issues as the sense of territorial political representation, the dynamics of regional identitites in conjunction with the scope of political claims, the problem of regional policy, the forms of political representation, and finally, the relations between region and state in the context of role played by the European Union in this field. The author concludes that in Central and Eastern Europe this process occurs differently than in Western Europe