The goal of this article is to suggest that an extended family of Mediterranean welfare states
exists and that it consists of eight different nations, some of which have been ignored in the …

The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus-the'Anglosphere', the Franco-
German'motor'and Nordic cooperation–each illustrates how differentiation has become a …

While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government has focused on national
differences, subnational variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This …

abstract This paper analyses the link between institutional quality and innovation for 103
Italian NUTS-3 provinces during the 2004–2012 period, providing fresh evidence for a …

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

In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial
types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996–2004, when both …

This book is as much the result of intent as of serendipity. It began life as a research project
on the interaction between history, community and urban regeneration in Lisbon. I was …

Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited brings together leading experts on the political
economies of southern Europe—specifically Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal—to closely …

In the literature on political support, much empirical effort has been devoted to the link
between economic performance and satisfaction with democracy. Nevertheless, analyses …

Portugal has been characterized by a late discontinuous democratization process. This
contribution discusses the case of state and public administration reform in Portugal by …