Michaël Tatham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4374891 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michaël Tatham |
| PRENOMES | Michaël |
| SOBRENOME | Tatham |
| ASSINATURA | TATHAM M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8388-8193 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 474 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Mapping domestic climate authority
Farewell note
This farewell note reflects on a decade of editorship for Regional & Federal Studies (RFS). It draws on this experience to highlight some areas of change and continuity in the journal’s life, the publishing industry, and the profession at large. Over this time interval (2012-2023), the journal has gone through changes in personnel and editorial strategies. Meanwhile, both academia in general and academic journals in particular have undergone proc…
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation
The yellow vest movement in France was triggered by a fuel tax increase. The increase was designed to reduce petrol consumption and hence emissions. However, the costs of this policy were unequally distributed among citizens. The yellow vests illustrate that abstract support for public action against climate change is not enough to secure support for concrete policies. These policies run the risk of being opposed by citizens when their costs are …
Climate policy
Most governments aim for net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, but none know fully how to get there. The papers in this special issue examine the role of climate governance for climate action, addressing three research questions: a) what characterizes enduring climate governance, b) which factors drive climate governance developments, and c) how can these be sustained within the polity? In this introductory article, we present three id…
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional reform in Norway. This reform is interesting as it mixes “voluntary” and “forced” dynamics. Indeed, Norwegian regions (fylkeskommuner) can remain unchanged, merge voluntarily, or be forced to merge by central government. This…
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
Regional and Federal Studies’ 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified in the last 30 years. Second, the approaches to studying this changing world have evolved through a quantitative and comparative turn. Regional and Federal Studies has embraced these developments whilst remaining faithful to i…
The territorial architecture of government
This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension betwee…
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government
How can we better understand the architecture of government? Governmental structures are regularly altered by the dispersion of power upward and downward to supranational and subnational bodies. The preferences of citizens and élites in this regard are well documented at the national and EU levels. However, the preferences of regional élites remain somewhat of a black box. What are their preferences when it comes to the distribution of competence…
Regions and immigration in advanced democracies
Immigration has become a cleaving issue in contemporary politics. Ranging from forced migration and climate-related population displacement to more mundane intra-European Union/European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA) freedom of movement, the immigration challenge takes several forms. Whilst national and supranational institutions have mobilized on the issue, subnational authorities in federal and regionalized countries have become important act…
Regionalization with Europeanization? The rescaling of interest groups in multi-level systems
The European integration literature reveals differentiated patterns of Europeanization. Meanwhile, the territorial politics literature has highlighted the emergence of 'regions with regionalism' due to ongoing decentralization reforms. If decentralization encourages the spatial rescaling of policy communities, does it also affect the Europeanization of a region's interest groups? To answer this question, we analyse 18 regional interest groups in …
Regionalization and the Transformation of Policies, Politics, and Polities in Europe
Occasionally, regions make front‐page news. From Wallonia holding‐up the EU–Canada trade deal, to Catalonia and Scotland seeking independence. However, beyond these attention‐grabbing events, more fundamental transformations have taken place, away from the media spotlight and sometimes also under the (theoretical and empirical) radar of scholarly work. This article highlights that the more gripping events making the headlines are only the tip of …
Party politics, institutions, and identity
With deepening European integration, domestic interest groups have increasingly engaged in multi-level venue shopping. Regional authorities are no different and have represented their interests through both intra- and extra-state channels. There is some disagreement, however, over which of these channels are most frequently used. Similarly, there is little consensus on the ways in which partisan, institutional, and identity logics can affect the …
The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing
Initially unfolding in parallel ways, the Europeanization and the regionalization of politics have increasingly intersected. Regional authorities have organized themselves to affect policy developments at the supranational level. They do so through the internal restructuring of their administrations, by carrying lobbying activities directly in Brussels, but also by institutionalizing and sometimes constitutionalizing their authority over their Me…
Networkers, fund hunters, intermediaries, or policy players? The activities of regions in Brussels
Regions started opening offices in Brussels in the mid-1980s. Today, well over half of Europe's regions are present there. What do they do once they are in Brussels? Are they mainly networking, chasing funding, acting as intermediaries, monitoring legislation, or trying to influence the EU's decision-making process? No study has analysed this question apart from the pioneering work by Marks et al. in 2002. This article breaks new ground by analys…
The transformation of democracy
This book is about the challenges democratic states are facing. Although our primary focus is on Europe, many of the arguments presented here extend farther. We identify two types of challenges. Both types affect how democratic states evolve and transform. The first type represents threats to our democratic systems, ranging from radical right populism and nationalism to terrorism or global warming. These are challenges our democracies have to ris…
Democratic Transformations in Europe
With, Without, or Against the State
The State, the Economy, and the Regions
As a response to the sovereign debt crisis, European states have carried out various reforms. In this process, they have sought to readjust the balance between free-market logics and the role of government. These reforms are often implemented—and sometimes co-decided—by regional administrations. Little is known, however, about the governance preferences of the e ́lite officials directing these administrations. This is paradoxical since regional a…
Regional Voices in the European Union
Research on interest representation in multijurisdictional polities teaches us much about the activities of a variety of groups that mobilize beyond the state. Scholars, however, largely overlook one type of group: regional authorities. Using data from a telephone survey of senior regional officials in 60 regions and five countries, I investigate the determinants of regional influence in the world's most advanced multijurisdictional polity, the E…
Coping with Power Dispersion
Same Game but More Players? Sub-national Lobbying in an Enlarged Union
This contribution builds on the insights provided by the literature on sub-national mobilization in the European Union (EU) to assess whether the 2004–2007 rounds of enlargement have changed anything in this respect. Empirical analysis uses two types of data sources. The first is a survey of over a 100 regional offices in Brussels, and the second consists of 29 semi-structured interviews with Commission officials led in the aftermath of the 2004–…
German Regional Administrative Elites, New Public Management and the Role of the State in the Economy
Les élites administratives régionales allemandes, le nouveau management public et le rôle de l’État dans l’économie — Y?a?t?il un lien entre l’intensité des réformes de type Nouveau Management Public (NPM) à l’échelle d’un système et les attitudes individuelles des élites administratives qui mettent en œuvre ces réformes dans leur vie professionnelle quotidienne ? Pour examiner cette question, cet article répertorie les préférences pour des solut…
Territorial interest representation in the European Union
When studying the ever increasing mobilization of territorial authorities in the EU context, the literature has used the term 'subnational' as shorthand for very different actors, with the most typical distinction made between regional and local government. In this article we propose an alternative dichotomy. We suggest that 'stronger' regions actually share much in common with 'stronger' associations of local governments, while 'weaker' regions …
Support from below? Supranational institutions, regional élites and governance preferences
There has been little research on élite preferences regarding supranational integration. Regional élites have been particularly neglected, even though they are implementers of European policies and programmes and therefore contribute to the integration process. To bridge this gap, this article explores the preferences of top regional civil servants – regio-crats – towards one of the most prominent supranational institutions, the European Commissi…
Competence ring-fencing from below? The drivers of regional demands for control over upwards dispersion
Powers have been transferred and delegated to varying degrees of depth and scope at both the sub- and supranational levels. The resulting competence overlap is sometimes substantial. This has driven a number of regional authorities to demand a greater say in future power dispersion movements to the supranational level, so as to pre-empt their proportional disempowerment. We investigate what drives these demands using interview data collected from…
With or without you’? Revisiting territorial state-bypassing in EU interest representation
Both the number and the powers of sub-state entities in the European Union (EU) have grown. These sub-state entities represent their European interests using both intra- and extra-state channels. The increasing use of the latter has encouraged scholarly literature to focus on the emerging 'paradiplomacy' of these entities. Sub-state paradiplomacy, however, can be both conducted in tandem with its member state or bypassing it. This article seeks t…
The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing
Initially unfolding in parallel ways, the Europeanization and the regionalization of politics have increasingly intersected. Regional authorities have organized themselves to affect policy developments at the supranational level. They do so through the internal restructuring of their administrations, by carrying lobbying activities directly in Brussels, but also by institutionalizing and sometimes constitutionalizing their authority over their Me…
Going Solo
This article seeks to map out routes of direct regional interest representation in the European Union. It identifies six main opportunity structures available to regions: the Committee of the Regions, the Council of Ministers, the Commission, the European Parliament, regional Brussels offices and European networks and associations. Using original interview material, the article analyses how and under what conditions each route can be most efficie…
Devolution and EU policy-shaping
This paper argues that the impact of devolution has been largely misperceived in both liberal intergovernmentalist (LI) and multi-level governance (MLG) accounts of European Union (EU) politics. To address the shortcomings of both LI and MLG, a new data set measuring institutionalized regional involvement in the domestic EU policy-shaping process in the EU-27 is presented. Analysis shows that the relationship between devolution and institutionali…
Territorial interest representation in the European Union
When studying the ever increasing mobilization of territorial authorities in the EU context, the literature has used the term 'subnational' as shorthand for very different actors, with the most typical distinction made between regional and local government. In this article we propose an alternative dichotomy. We suggest that 'stronger' regions actually share much in common with 'stronger' associations of local governments, while 'weaker' regions …
The more the merrier
Although talk of a ‘Europe of the regions’ has come and gone, regions have come to Brussels but stayed. While such mobilisation has not led to the emergence of a ‘third level’, regional officials in Brussels sometimes outnumber their peers from their country’s permanent representation. Considering the perseverance and size of such a presence, we explore what factors best account for it. To this end, a series of multi-level models inform us about …
Networkers, fund hunters, intermediaries, or policy players? The activities of regions in Brussels
Regions started opening offices in Brussels in the mid-1980s. Today, well over half of Europe's regions are present there. What do they do once they are in Brussels? Are they mainly networking, chasing funding, acting as intermediaries, monitoring legislation, or trying to influence the EU's decision-making process? No study has analysed this question apart from the pioneering work by Marks et al. in 2002. This article breaks new ground by analys…
Coping with power dispersion? Autonomy, co-ordination and control in multilevel systems
The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competences away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competences spans over three dimensions: upwards; sideways; and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. In this introduction, we discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the wa…
Paradiplomats Against the State
Literature on substate mobilization in Europe has provided some useful insights into the factors and mechanisms shaping territorial interest representation in Brussels. Although recent studies have enhanced our understanding of the determinants of cooperative and bypassing paradiplomacy, those underpinning conflict have remained rather obscure. Using a new data set with information on more than 100 substate offices in Brussels, this article sheds…
Regional Voices in the European Union
Research on interest representation in multijurisdictional polities teaches us much about the activities of a variety of groups that mobilize beyond the state. Scholars, however, largely overlook one type of group: regional authorities. Using data from a telephone survey of senior regional officials in 60 regions and five countries, I investigate the determinants of regional influence in the world's most advanced multijurisdictional polity, the E…
You do what you have to do? Salience and territorial interest representation in EU environmental affairs
Although the determinants of territorial mobilization at the level of the European Union (EU) have been examined since the 1990s, the analysis of the interaction between regional and state interest representation has been rather neglected. This article focuses on a single policy area – environmental affairs – in order to evaluate the impact of policy-specific preference intensity (salience) on state–region relationships in Brussels. Using origina…
Competence ring-fencing from below? The drivers of regional demands for control over upwards dispersion
Powers have been transferred and delegated to varying degrees of depth and scope at both the sub- and supranational levels. The resulting competence overlap is sometimes substantial. This has driven a number of regional authorities to demand a greater say in future power dispersion movements to the supranational level, so as to pre-empt their proportional disempowerment. We investigate what drives these demands using interview data collected from…
Climate policy
Most governments aim for net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, but none know fully how to get there. The papers in this special issue examine the role of climate governance for climate action, addressing three research questions: a) what characterizes enduring climate governance, b) which factors drive climate governance developments, and c) how can these be sustained within the polity? In this introductory article, we present three id…
Regionalization with Europeanization? The rescaling of interest groups in multi-level systems
The European integration literature reveals differentiated patterns of Europeanization. Meanwhile, the territorial politics literature has highlighted the emergence of 'regions with regionalism' due to ongoing decentralization reforms. If decentralization encourages the spatial rescaling of policy communities, does it also affect the Europeanization of a region's interest groups? To answer this question, we analyse 18 regional interest groups in …
Limited institutional change in an international organization
The European Union (EU) has been through many institutional transformations since the start of the integration project in the 1950s. While much of the literature has focussed on the more dramatic changes, less attention has been paid to instances of more limited institutional change. This article maps out and then accounts for the limitedness of the EU's departure from its original ‘federal blindness’vis-à-visregional actors. Theories of institut…
The territorial architecture of government
This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension betwee…
Party politics, institutions, and identity
With deepening European integration, domestic interest groups have increasingly engaged in multi-level venue shopping. Regional authorities are no different and have represented their interests through both intra- and extra-state channels. There is some disagreement, however, over which of these channels are most frequently used. Similarly, there is little consensus on the ways in which partisan, institutional, and identity logics can affect the …
Regionalization and the Transformation of Policies, Politics, and Polities in Europe
Occasionally, regions make front‐page news. From Wallonia holding‐up the EU–Canada trade deal, to Catalonia and Scotland seeking independence. However, beyond these attention‐grabbing events, more fundamental transformations have taken place, away from the media spotlight and sometimes also under the (theoretical and empirical) radar of scholarly work. This article highlights that the more gripping events making the headlines are only the tip of …
Support from below? Supranational institutions, regional élites and governance preferences
There has been little research on élite preferences regarding supranational integration. Regional élites have been particularly neglected, even though they are implementers of European policies and programmes and therefore contribute to the integration process. To bridge this gap, this article explores the preferences of top regional civil servants – regio-crats – towards one of the most prominent supranational institutions, the European Commissi…
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation
The yellow vest movement in France was triggered by a fuel tax increase. The increase was designed to reduce petrol consumption and hence emissions. However, the costs of this policy were unequally distributed among citizens. The yellow vests illustrate that abstract support for public action against climate change is not enough to secure support for concrete policies. These policies run the risk of being opposed by citizens when their costs are …
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional reform in Norway. This reform is interesting as it mixes “voluntary” and “forced” dynamics. Indeed, Norwegian regions (fylkeskommuner) can remain unchanged, merge voluntarily, or be forced to merge by central government. This…
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
Regional and Federal Studies’ 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified in the last 30 years. Second, the approaches to studying this changing world have evolved through a quantitative and comparative turn. Regional and Federal Studies has embraced these developments whilst remaining faithful to i…
Same Game but More Players? Sub-national Lobbying in an Enlarged Union
This contribution builds on the insights provided by the literature on sub-national mobilization in the European Union (EU) to assess whether the 2004–2007 rounds of enlargement have changed anything in this respect. Empirical analysis uses two types of data sources. The first is a survey of over a 100 regional offices in Brussels, and the second consists of 29 semi-structured interviews with Commission officials led in the aftermath of the 2004–…
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government
How can we better understand the architecture of government? Governmental structures are regularly altered by the dispersion of power upward and downward to supranational and subnational bodies. The preferences of citizens and élites in this regard are well documented at the national and EU levels. However, the preferences of regional élites remain somewhat of a black box. What are their preferences when it comes to the distribution of competence…
The State, the Economy, and the Regions
As a response to the sovereign debt crisis, European states have carried out various reforms. In this process, they have sought to readjust the balance between free-market logics and the role of government. These reforms are often implemented—and sometimes co-decided—by regional administrations. Little is known, however, about the governance preferences of the e ́lite officials directing these administrations. This is paradoxical since regional a…
Going Solo
This article seeks to map out routes of direct regional interest representation in the European Union. It identifies six main opportunity structures available to regions: the Committee of the Regions, the Council of Ministers, the Commission, the European Parliament, regional Brussels offices and European networks and associations. Using original interview material, the article analyses how and under what conditions each route can be most efficie…
With or without you’? Revisiting territorial state-bypassing in EU interest representation
Both the number and the powers of sub-state entities in the European Union (EU) have grown. These sub-state entities represent their European interests using both intra- and extra-state channels. The increasing use of the latter has encouraged scholarly literature to focus on the emerging 'paradiplomacy' of these entities. Sub-state paradiplomacy, however, can be both conducted in tandem with its member state or bypassing it. This article seeks t…
Devolution and EU policy-shaping
This paper argues that the impact of devolution has been largely misperceived in both liberal intergovernmentalist (LI) and multi-level governance (MLG) accounts of European Union (EU) politics. To address the shortcomings of both LI and MLG, a new data set measuring institutionalized regional involvement in the domestic EU policy-shaping process in the EU-27 is presented. Analysis shows that the relationship between devolution and institutionali…
You do what you have to do? Salience and territorial interest representation in EU environmental affairs
Although the determinants of territorial mobilization at the level of the European Union (EU) have been examined since the 1990s, the analysis of the interaction between regional and state interest representation has been rather neglected. This article focuses on a single policy area – environmental affairs – in order to evaluate the impact of policy-specific preference intensity (salience) on state–region relationships in Brussels. Using origina…
The Rise of Regional Authority
The Rise of Regional Authority: A comparative study of 42 democracies L. Hooghe, G. Marks & A. H. Schakel Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, ISBN 978-0415577762 Scholars interested in the causes, processes
Paradiplomats Against the State
Literature on substate mobilization in Europe has provided some useful insights into the factors and mechanisms shaping territorial interest representation in Brussels. Although recent studies have enhanced our understanding of the determinants of cooperative and bypassing paradiplomacy, those underpinning conflict have remained rather obscure. Using a new data set with information on more than 100 substate offices in Brussels, this article sheds…
Same Game but More Players? Sub-national Lobbying in an Enlarged Union
This contribution builds on the insights provided by the literature on sub-national mobilization in the European Union (EU) to assess whether the 2004–2007 rounds of enlargement have changed anything in this respect. Empirical analysis uses two types of data sources. The first is a survey of over a 100 regional offices in Brussels, and the second consists of 29 semi-structured interviews with Commission officials led in the aftermath of the 2004–…
German Regional Administrative Elites, New Public Management and the Role of the State in the Economy
Les élites administratives régionales allemandes, le nouveau management public et le rôle de l’État dans l’économie — Y?a?t?il un lien entre l’intensité des réformes de type Nouveau Management Public (NPM) à l’échelle d’un système et les attitudes individuelles des élites administratives qui mettent en œuvre ces réformes dans leur vie professionnelle quotidienne ? Pour examiner cette question, cet article répertorie les préférences pour des solut…
Territorial interest representation in the European Union
When studying the ever increasing mobilization of territorial authorities in the EU context, the literature has used the term 'subnational' as shorthand for very different actors, with the most typical distinction made between regional and local government. In this article we propose an alternative dichotomy. We suggest that 'stronger' regions actually share much in common with 'stronger' associations of local governments, while 'weaker' regions …
Support from below? Supranational institutions, regional élites and governance preferences
There has been little research on élite preferences regarding supranational integration. Regional élites have been particularly neglected, even though they are implementers of European policies and programmes and therefore contribute to the integration process. To bridge this gap, this article explores the preferences of top regional civil servants – regio-crats – towards one of the most prominent supranational institutions, the European Commissi…
Competence ring-fencing from below? The drivers of regional demands for control over upwards dispersion
Powers have been transferred and delegated to varying degrees of depth and scope at both the sub- and supranational levels. The resulting competence overlap is sometimes substantial. This has driven a number of regional authorities to demand a greater say in future power dispersion movements to the supranational level, so as to pre-empt their proportional disempowerment. We investigate what drives these demands using interview data collected from…
Coping with power dispersion? Autonomy, co-ordination and control in multilevel systems
The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competences away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competences spans over three dimensions: upwards; sideways; and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. In this introduction, we discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the wa…
The more the merrier
Although talk of a ‘Europe of the regions’ has come and gone, regions have come to Brussels but stayed. While such mobilisation has not led to the emergence of a ‘third level’, regional officials in Brussels sometimes outnumber their peers from their country’s permanent representation. Considering the perseverance and size of such a presence, we explore what factors best account for it. To this end, a series of multi-level models inform us about …
Limited institutional change in an international organization
The European Union (EU) has been through many institutional transformations since the start of the integration project in the 1950s. While much of the literature has focussed on the more dramatic changes, less attention has been paid to instances of more limited institutional change. This article maps out and then accounts for the limitedness of the EU's departure from its original ‘federal blindness’vis-à-visregional actors. Theories of institut…
Regional Voices in the European Union
Research on interest representation in multijurisdictional polities teaches us much about the activities of a variety of groups that mobilize beyond the state. Scholars, however, largely overlook one type of group: regional authorities. Using data from a telephone survey of senior regional officials in 60 regions and five countries, I investigate the determinants of regional influence in the world's most advanced multijurisdictional polity, the E…
Coping with Power Dispersion
The transformation of democracy
This book is about the challenges democratic states are facing. Although our primary focus is on Europe, many of the arguments presented here extend farther. We identify two types of challenges. Both types affect how democratic states evolve and transform. The first type represents threats to our democratic systems, ranging from radical right populism and nationalism to terrorism or global warming. These are challenges our democracies have to ris…
Democratic Transformations in Europe
With, Without, or Against the State
The State, the Economy, and the Regions
As a response to the sovereign debt crisis, European states have carried out various reforms. In this process, they have sought to readjust the balance between free-market logics and the role of government. These reforms are often implemented—and sometimes co-decided—by regional administrations. Little is known, however, about the governance preferences of the e ́lite officials directing these administrations. This is paradoxical since regional a…
Networkers, fund hunters, intermediaries, or policy players? The activities of regions in Brussels
Regions started opening offices in Brussels in the mid-1980s. Today, well over half of Europe's regions are present there. What do they do once they are in Brussels? Are they mainly networking, chasing funding, acting as intermediaries, monitoring legislation, or trying to influence the EU's decision-making process? No study has analysed this question apart from the pioneering work by Marks et al. in 2002. This article breaks new ground by analys…
Regionalization with Europeanization? The rescaling of interest groups in multi-level systems
The European integration literature reveals differentiated patterns of Europeanization. Meanwhile, the territorial politics literature has highlighted the emergence of 'regions with regionalism' due to ongoing decentralization reforms. If decentralization encourages the spatial rescaling of policy communities, does it also affect the Europeanization of a region's interest groups? To answer this question, we analyse 18 regional interest groups in …
Regionalization and the Transformation of Policies, Politics, and Polities in Europe
Occasionally, regions make front‐page news. From Wallonia holding‐up the EU–Canada trade deal, to Catalonia and Scotland seeking independence. However, beyond these attention‐grabbing events, more fundamental transformations have taken place, away from the media spotlight and sometimes also under the (theoretical and empirical) radar of scholarly work. This article highlights that the more gripping events making the headlines are only the tip of …
Party politics, institutions, and identity
With deepening European integration, domestic interest groups have increasingly engaged in multi-level venue shopping. Regional authorities are no different and have represented their interests through both intra- and extra-state channels. There is some disagreement, however, over which of these channels are most frequently used. Similarly, there is little consensus on the ways in which partisan, institutional, and identity logics can affect the …
The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing
Initially unfolding in parallel ways, the Europeanization and the regionalization of politics have increasingly intersected. Regional authorities have organized themselves to affect policy developments at the supranational level. They do so through the internal restructuring of their administrations, by carrying lobbying activities directly in Brussels, but also by institutionalizing and sometimes constitutionalizing their authority over their Me…
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