Sub-state governments have emerged as important sites of climate policy innovation, but
their capacity for action has rarely been examined. Although they are devolved regions …

While intergovernmental negotiations in multilevel systems are typically fraught with conflict
and potential deadlock due to conflict of interest, this chapter argues that the specific role of …

In this article, we offer an explanation for varying patterns of territorial reforms aimed at
accommodating claims for more substate autonomy in multinational states. We argue that …

The study of intergovernmental relations (IGR) is a classical research area in scholarship on
federalism and territorial politics. However, it has largely ignored the relatively new, and …

The introductory article to this Special Issue offers an analytical framework for investigating
federal reforms. By looking through the lens of institutional theory, it provides an avenue for …

This book examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism and the
effects asymmetry produces on legitimacy and stability in federal and quasi-federal systems …

Abstract In the German Bundesrat, an arena of horizontal intergovernmental relations,
sixteen Länder governments composed of approximately 170 governmental departments …

How should scholars study European governance? In this introductory article, we situate our
genealogical approach in relation to existing research by summarizing the key features of …

This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its
likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional …

In this article, we are interested in the extent to which federalism is able to deal with
peripheral protest through shared rule channels. Shared rule as a key dimension of federal …