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Federalism, centrism, and the crisis of the Nigerian academy
John Boye Ejobowah
Published online: 04 Jun 2024
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Dismantling of European environmental policy: how great expectations in Brussels are dashed by Italian subnational implementation
Paola Coletti
Published online: 29 May 2024
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From regional autonomy towards horizontal and vertical congruence coalition politics in Polish regions in the period 1998–2018
Tatiana Majcherkiewicz
Published online: 27 May 2024
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Correction
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Commonsense sovereignty: a practice theory of Flanders’ paradiplomacy to the European Union
Marjolaine Lamontagne
Published online: 13 May 2024
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Taking stock of the multilevel governance research programme: a systematic literature review
Yannis Papadopoulos, Pier Domenico Tortola & Nathan Geyer
Published online: 28 Mar 2024
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Studying policy transfer and policy learning in border regions. A proposition for interdisciplinary dialogue and a research agenda
Stefanie Thurm, Georg Wenzelburger & Peter Ulrich
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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The patterns of political career movements of Nigerian cabinet ministers, 1999–2017
Elena Semenova & Nkwachukwu Orji
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Multilingual federalism in times of crisis
Sean Mueller & Pirmin Bundi
Published online: 09 Feb 2024
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Continuities and changes in electoral authoritarianism: evidence from Ethiopia
Bizuneh Yimenu
Published online: 09 Feb 2024
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How cross-pressured local politicians choose government loyalty over local voters’ preferences. Lessons from a survey experiment in Norway
Troy Saghaug Broderstad & Jonas Stein
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Sleeping dogs: Quebec and the stabilization of Canadian Federalism after 1995
by Andrew McDougall, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 210 pages, $32.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-487-52221-6
Pau Torres
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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The Danish Realm in the Arctic
Hallbera West
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Evidence of subnational government sovereign boundary percolation in Nigeria
Ohiocheoya (Ohio) Omiunu & Ifeanyichukwu Azuka Aniyie
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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White Eagle, Black Eagle Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
by Robert Parkin, 2023, DOI: 10.3167/9781805390022, ISBN:978-1-80539-002-2 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-80539-003-9 (e-book) $46.99, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford
Jagad Aditya Dewantara, Dasim Budimansyah & Sulistyarini Sulistyarini
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Statehood exercises in Ethiopia and their jurisprudential significance: clarifying normative hurdles and addressing empirical challenges
Nigussie Afesha & Hazel Rose Barrett
Published online: 09 Jan 2024
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Devolution and local government: 25 years beyond the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement
Paul Carmichael & Colin Knox
Published online: 02 Jan 2024
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Multilevel governance and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review
Brendan J. Carroll, Lars Brummel, Dimiter Toshkov & Kutsal Yesilkagit
Published online: 26 Dec 2023
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Power of the weak? Framing strategies in fiscal redistribution negotiations
Kinga Koranyi
Published online: 20 Dec 2023
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The concept and uses of hourglass federalism: a comparative study
Michael G. Breen & Iain Payne
Published online: 17 Dec 2023
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Shaping territorial solutions to the Cyprus conflict: the role of international organizations
Yücel Vural & Gülay Umaner-Duba
Published online: 17 Dec 2023
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Transitioning from aggregated bipartism: state elections in Malaysia, May 2018–March 2022
Chin-Huat Wong
Published online: 24 Oct 2023
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Navigating complexity: exploring the changing dynamics of coalition avoidance in Germany, 1946–2023
Martin Gross, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker & Marc Debus
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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The state
by Philip Pettit, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £35 (hardcover), ISBN 9780691182209
Alberto González Fernández
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Patterns of political career movements in multi-level systems: a cross-national comparison of twenty-seven countries
Elena Semenova & Keith Dowding
Published online: 17 Oct 2023
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Local autonomy around the world: the updated and extended Local Autonomy Index (LAI 2.0)
Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer & Alexander Bastianen
Published online: 17 Oct 2023
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Political careers and stability in office of regional ministers in Italy
Matteo Boldrini & Selena Grimaldi
Published online: 13 Oct 2023
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Protecting the climate to challenge the centre? Secessionism and climate policy preferences in Catalonia
Joan Enguer & Rosa M. Navarrete
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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Ideational legacies and the politics of migration in European minority regions
by Christina Zuber, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 208 pp., 71£, paperback, ISBN: 9780192847201
Nuria Franco-Guillen
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Filling in the ‘missing middle’?
Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region: The First Mayoral Term, by Georgina Blakely and Brendan Evans, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, £85.00
Paul Anderson
Published online: 22 Sep 2023
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Intergovernmental relations and national education policy implementation in Lagos State, Nigeria
Adebayo O. Adedeji
Published online: 22 Sep 2023
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Rethinking shared rule as intergovernmental lobbying: a framework for analysis
Rahel Freiburghaus
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Explaining the salience of secessionist party constitutional demands for independence
Elin Royles
Published online: 02 Aug 2023
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The 2019 local government elections in Aotearoa New Zealand
Julienne Molineaux
Published online: 19 Jul 2023
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Thirty years of Mexico’ state elections. What explains subnational alternations?
Alejandro Díaz Domínguez
Published online: 13 Jul 2023
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Is Quebec independence still key in making sense of Canadian elections? A longitudinal analysis (2000–2021)
Jean-François Daoust & Thomas Gareau-Paquette
Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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Local governments on an equal footing? Policy coordination between Swedish regions and municipalities in regional development policy
Johan Wänström & Bo Persson
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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Hydrogen governance in Germany: a challenge for federal coordination
Lucas Flath, Jörg Kemmerzell & Michèle Knodt
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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Voluntary association, not state consent: why the EU’s stance on secession rests on the wrong concept of legitimacy
Niklas Bremberg & Jouni Reinikainen
Published online: 30 Jun 2023
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The secessionist’s Prince
I want to break free: a practical guide to making a new country, by Matt Qvortrup, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022, 184 pp., £12.99, Paperback, ISBN 978-1-5261-6605-0
Marc Sanjaume-Calvet
Published online: 12 Jun 2023
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Majorities, Minorities and the Future of Nationhood
edited by Orgad, Liav and Koopmans, Ruud, Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781009233378. 320 pp. £26.99 paperback.
Sergi Morales-Gálvez
Published online: 29 May 2023
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Studies in Indian Public Finance
by M. Govinda Rao, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 272pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780192849601. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/studies-in-indian-public-finance-9780192849601?cc=in&lang=en&
Deyona Rose Saji
Published online: 28 May 2023
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Regional elections in Portugal: Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020): the two-way spill over between national and regional politics
André Freire & Teresa Ruel
Published online: 20 Apr 2023
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Variation of principal-agent relations in Russian federal autocracy
Stanislav Klimovich
Published online: 03 Apr 2023
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Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution: a comparative analysis of the effects of Brexit on parties’ territorial strategies
Jonathan Bradbury, Alan Convery & Matthew Wall
Published online: 30 Mar 2023
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Conditional support from below? Understanding the dynamics of municipal amalgamation preferences among local politicians
Thomas Myksvoll
Published online: 26 Mar 2023
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Regional media and non-statewide party voting in Europe
Jonathan Parker
Published online: 20 Mar 2023
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The dual challenge of distributive politics in multilevel systems: the local allocation of EU funding in Polish Regional Operational Programmes
Florian Wittmann
Published online: 16 Mar 2023
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Regionalism in a glocal lens: a metagovernance framework
Eric Yankson
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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The Trump vote and Covid-19 vaccination across US states, US counties, and Connecticut towns
James W. McGuire
Published online: 23 Jan 2023
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