This paper looks at the effect of intergovernmental relations on citizens’ trust in government during crises, as it is an important determinant of a successful crisis response. We use original surv...

The Constitution of India broke the conventional mould of federalism with sui-generis centralizing features, especially with the center’s sub-national emergency power to determine ‘constitutional m...

This paper examines the political-economic drivers of federalization and de-federalization, focusing on how historical and institutional factors influence multilevel governance. By comparing the Eu...

Regional integration in Africa has long been viewed as a way to promote trade and strengthen cooperation among states. Since its re-establishment in 2000, the East African Community (EAC) has foste...

📢 Launch Announcement: ECPR Standing Group on Federalism & Regionalism (SGFR) 📢 👋 Hello LinkedIn Community 👋 We are delighted to announce the presence of the Standing Group on Federalism & Region...

This essay marks the transition to a new editorial team at Regional & Federal Studies and offers a broad review of emerging themes and future directions in the study of federalism, regionalism, and...

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The idea that regional elections automatically could be considered as second-order elections has been criticized in the recent literature, as the rise of regional authority implies that the regiona...

European Consortium for Political Research

Alan Fenna and Johanna Schnabel (2024; henceforth F&S) want to clarify what federal scholars mean when they study their object. They identify “two main

This article analyzes how autocratic parties sustain and adjust electoral manipulative tactics to maintain electoral dominance in multi-level elections. It examines continuities and changes in elec...

Intergovernmental relations (IGRs) in federal and decentralized systems were challenged by the pandemic. In Italy, the recentralization of decision-making made regional participation in the process...

This is the final Annual Review of Regional Elections (ARoRE) and through a literature review we identify the main contributions made by the ARoRE. We contrast 56 ARoRE contributions to 268 regiona...

This article deals with agreements within healthcare in Sweden, a unitary state where responsibility for healthcare is decentralized to 21 regions with self-rule. The agreements are concluded by th...

This paper focusses on the objectives guiding the fiscal policy of the Spanish regions over the period 2013–2023. Beyond the usual concerns of national governments for closing the output gap and gu...

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