Over the past three decades, Europe has witnessed a growing trend of devolution, or the
transfer of power from states to their regions. Much of the previous scholarship has …

How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power
to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is devolution the best response to these …

In this paper, I evaluate whether regional citizens are more likely to support greater
autonomy because they find the idea of an independent region within Europe to be more …

Metro mayors heading a combined authority represent the most recent innovation in English
devolution. City-region devolution has been a key way in which successive Conservative …

Does Identity or Economic Rationality Drive Public Opinion on European Integration? Page 1
PSOnline www.apsanet.org 415 by Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill …

This paper explores the development of public attitudes to devolution in Wales since the
September 1997 referendum that narrowly approved the creation of the National Assembly …

In this article I propose a model that explains first time devolution in unitary, centralised
states with geographically concentrated minorities. I contend here that political devolution is …

In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and
analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit …

Regions with a strong sense of identity, especially culturally distinct regions within a country,
typically wish for more autonomy. But regions with strong economic grievances against the …

This paper explores the development of public attitudes to devolution in Wales since the
September 1997 referendum that narrowly approved the creation of the National Assembly …