Explaining political decentralization in parliamentary democracies
@article{Spina2013ExplainingPD, title={Explaining political decentralization in parliamentary democracies}, author={Nicholas Spina}, journal={Comparative European Politics}, year={2013}, volume={11}, pages={428-457} }
This article explores the determinants of political decentralization in 29 OECD parliamentary democracies. I examine how the decision to enact political decentralization is mediated by the partisan composition of parliamentary governments. Specifically, I hypothesize that four features impact the ability and motive to institute political decentralization: government ideology, policy decentralization platforms, power and stability, and the presence of ethnoregionalist parties in the national…
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