Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume I
Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, Sara Niedzwiecki, and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield
Abstract
This book sets out principles of measurement in political and social science and proposes a measure of regional authority. The most distinctive feature of the measure is that it takes the individual region as a unit of analysis. The regional authority index estimates self-rule and shared rule exercised by regional governments on an annual basis from 1950–2010 in eighty-one countries. These include all EU member states, member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Latin American countries, plus ten countries in Europe beyond the European Union and eleven in As ... More
This book sets out principles of measurement in political and social science and proposes a measure of regional authority. The most distinctive feature of the measure is that it takes the individual region as a unit of analysis. The regional authority index estimates self-rule and shared rule exercised by regional governments on an annual basis from 1950–2010 in eighty-one countries. These include all EU member states, member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Latin American countries, plus ten countries in Europe beyond the European Union and eleven in Asia Pacific. 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 eighty-one countries for the expert and general reader alike.
Keywords:
Region,
governance,
measurement,
state,
self-rule,
shared rule
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198728870 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728870.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Liesbet Hooghe, author
W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gary Marks, author
Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arjan H. Schakel, author
Assistant Professor of Research Methods, Maastricht University
Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, author
Visiting Research Fellow, VU University Amsterdam
Sara Niedzwiecki, author
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, author
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
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