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Measuring regional authority / Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooghe, Liesbet.
- Series:
- Transformations in governance
- Postfunctionalist theory of governance ; v. 1.
- A postfunctionalist theory of governance ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism.
- Comparative government.
- Local government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 687 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This is the first of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state and for social scientists who rake measurement seriously. The book sets out a measure of regional authority for 81 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific from 1950 to 2010. Subnational authority is exercised by individual regions, and this measure is the first that takes individual regions as the unit of analysis. On the premise that transparency is a fundamental virtue in measurement, the authors chart a new path in laying out their theoretical, conceptual, and scoring decisions before the reader. The book also provides summaries of regional governance in 81 countries for scholars and students alike. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Measurement
- 1 Transparency in Measurement 3
- 2 Crossvalidating the Regional Authority Index 36
- 3 How We Apply the Coding Scheme 58
- Part II Country Profiles
- North America 113
- Central America and the Caribbean 145
- South America 193
- Asia Pacific 283
- Northern and Western Europe 344
- Central and Eastern Europe and Russia 418
- Southern Europe 450.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [559]-663) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198728870
- 0198728875
- OCLC:
- 958224459
- Publisher Number:
- 99969658799
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