Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rita20 Download by: [Universitaire De Lausanne] Date: 03 October 2016, At: 04:29 Contemporary Italian Politics ISSN: 2324-8823 (Print) 2324-8831 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rita20 Are government regionalist parties mainstream parties? A comparison of the Südtiroler Volkspartei, the Union Valdôtaine, and the Lega dei Ticinesi Maxime Bottel, Oscar Mazzoleni & Günther Pallaver To cite this article: Maxime Bottel, Oscar Mazzoleni & Günther Pallaver (2016) Are government regionalist parties mainstream parties? A comparison of the Südtiroler Volkspartei, the Union Valdôtaine, and the Lega dei Ticinesi, Contemporary Italian Politics, 8:2, 160-179, DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2016.1193953 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2016.1193953 Published online: 16 Jun 2016. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 39 View related articles View Crossmark data