Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate
government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this …

Identity, a term that was not yet included in Williams' important Keywords: a vocabulary of
culture and society (1976), has become a major watchword since the 1980s. Traditional …

This book is based on research conducted within the framework of the Economic and Social
Research Council project 'Elites and Institutions in Regional and Local Governance in …

As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying
the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists …

Abstract M ac L eod G. and J ones M.(2007) Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: in
what sense a 'regional world'?, Regional Studies 41, 1177–1191. Whilst undoubtedly central …

Amid the globalization of economic life and a myriad of powerful challenges to Westphalian
traditions of political statehood, it is now routinely contended that regions are 'in resurgence' …

European integration questions the relationship between nation and state. It under-mines
traditional sovereignty and weakens the need for statehood. Minority nationalist movements …

Наша «нефизическая» география, которая по традиции всё ещё называется в России
экономической, решительно выходит за тематические рамки хозяйства и становится …

This article reviews the past decade of decentralization and regionalization research on the
new Eastern European member states of the EU (EU-10). We classify the existing literature …

The transformation of the regional system in China has resulted in polycentric spatial forms
in major city-regions. With urban entrepreneurialism prevailing across the country, these …