This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and
A comparative analysis of why democratic institutions often produce dissonance between citizens' preferences and public policy in separation-of-powers regimes.
Participation and representation are two fundamental elements and principles of democracy: they affirm that a democracy is dependent on its citizens and that th
The theory of comparative federalism asserts that federations require a second chamber for the representation of regional interests in central law-making. Yet t
