Defeating a pandemic such as COVID-19 is a challenge of public administration as much as
medicine or science. In 2020, before vaccines were widely available, governments were …

Intergovernmental councils have emerged as the main structures through which the
governments of a federation coordinate public policy making. In a globalized and complex …

This article studies the Spanish response to COVID-19 from an inter-governmental relations
perspective. Despite its high degree of territorial decentralisation, a strong centralisation …

Italy and Spain were the first countries affected by the shift of the pandemic epicentre from
east to west. The rapid spread of the virus in allegedly similar social settings, the relatively …

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a
result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains …

THE Spanish territorial model (Estado autonómico) is one of the basic constituting elements
of the Spanish democracy and political system. Alongside increasing Europeanization since …

Drawing on the distinction between self‐rule and shared rule in multilevel states, this article
argues that shared rule has been the neglected element of the UK devolution settlement …

The recent literature has witnessed a booming scholarly interest in shared rule, a defining
aspect of federalism. As a result, scholars have converged on an understanding that …

This paper reviews the most important characteristics and of the Spanish Intergovernmental
Councils (IGCs) and theorizes about the effect of the increasing fragmentation of the party …

While the single institution of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB) is a recent creation,
some form of institutional cooperation among most of the metropolitan municipalities has …