This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between
federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism …

Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable
alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to …

Al final del capítulo 1 se realiza un repaso de la fórmula federal y una crítica a su
contraposición jacobina con la finalidad de clarificar una restringida consideración del …

Zusammenfassung Die Vorstellung, dass politische Prozesse in Organisationen oder
Regierungssystemen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen ablaufen, scheint die Unterscheidung …

How have the American presidency, the British premiership and the German chancellorship
changed over the last half-century? Has there been convergence or divergence in the …

This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates:
how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare …

Risk‐based governance is argued by many to hold the promise of a more rational and
efficient state, by making explicit the limitations of state interventions and focusing finite …

A tese se dedica à discussão da relação de reciprocidade entre federalismo e políticas
sociais no Brasil, analisando os sistemas de políticas públicas nas áreas da saúde …

Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in
Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the …

Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three
decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing …