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title = "Introduction: Europe, Regions, and European Regionalism",
abstract = "Europe{\textquoteright}s regions. To the extent that this phrase conjures up any images at all among the wider public — those men and women whom the English fondly imagine as traveling on the apocryphal Clapham Omnibus — then it is surely a series of images from those parts of Europe whose obvious, confident sense of their own identity and importance sets them apart from mere {\textquoteleft}localities{\textquoteright}, even while they lack the trappings of sovereign statehood. This is the Europe of Catalonia and Scotland, two regions whose capital cities exude an almost palpable sense of status that far surpasses that cramped and slighting designation of {\textquoteleft}provincial{\textquoteright} sometimes bestowed upon them by their respective metropolitan centers. This is a Europe of deep roots and ancient tradition: the Europe, above all perhaps, of b{\"u}rgerlische Gesellschaft, of bourgeois society. This is a solid, occasionally stolid, Europe which can pride itself in real and lasting civic achievement. Enterprise is another key bourgeois virtue and to invoke regional Europe is also to invoke the dynamic Europe implied by the use of the prefix {\textquoteleft}motor{\textquoteright} to describe a grouping of four of the most successful regions — Baden-W{\"u}rttemberg, Rh{\^o}ne-Alpes, Lombardy, as well as Catalonia.1 This is a Europe that takes pride in its past achievements and looks to the future with confidence.",
author = "Jones, {Richard Wyn} and Roger Awan-Scully",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010 Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully.",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1057/9780230293151_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780230231788",
series = "Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "1--15",
editor = "Roger Awan-Scully and Jones, {Richard Wyn}",
booktitle = "Europe, Regions and European Regionalism",
edition = "1st",
}