Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate
government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this …

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above
and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes …

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 …

Having been fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Spain over the
last decade, José M. Magone gives a fresh insight into the formal and informal workings of …

The variables explaining party system fragmentation have been investigated extensively, but
little is known about changes in the number of parties over time within countries. This article …

Territorial conflict in Belgium—a small, affluent West-European democracy—has primarily
pitted the Flemish region against the Walloon region—with a Brussels center caught in the …

Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected
textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European and European Union …

" This paper takes up the familiar question of how one can explain support for European
integration. One line of explanation builds on trade theory to theorize a calculus of economic …

This process of centralisation and standardisation encouraged the creation of 'cross-local
alliances of a functional nature'(Bartolini 2005). Indeed, since the strengthening of central …

This article shows the existence of a coordination dilemma in multilevel countries that hold
elections for different parliaments, at different territorial levels and with different electoral …