Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.
This book highlights the various functional and structural problems with which contemporary democracies are confronted and which lie at the root of their peoples’ discontent.
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
This book examines the ways in which federal institutions assign fiscal power and policy-making power and how this shapes the long-term development of political competition.
Focusing on the EU, this volume, with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical research, examines the problems multilevel governance causes for democratic legitimacy by placing it in a comparative and theoretical context, and ...
In the first comprehensive account of the left-right politics of multilevel governance across federal, regional, and global levels, Adam Harmes identifies both free-market and interventionist political projects related to fiscal federalism.
This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK, and discusses conditions that might facilitate or hamper responsiveness ...
In this context, this volume undertakes a critical assessment of both the potentialities and the limitations of multi-level governance.
This is the first legal monograph analysing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) from the perspective of democractic, republican and cosmopolitan constitutionalism by using historical, legal, political and economic ...
This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization.
This book examines the ways in which federal institutions assign fiscal power and policy-making power and how this shapes the long-term development of political competition.