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The book advances a new explanation to account for the continuity of undemocratic subnational regimes (SURs) in democratic countries.

This book outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Christina Zuber draws on contrasting case studies from Catalonia and South Tyrol to show that differences in policy can be explained by the political economy of historical industrialization and internal migration.

This volume examines the development of the idea of 'technocratic internationalism': the promotion of the involvement of experts in the workings of international relations, especially in international organizations such as the United Nations and European Union.

This book develops a sociology of international political work, based on four years of embedded observation inside the cabinet of a European Commissioner.

This book examines how the European Union shapes the creation and change of regional institutions in other parts of the world.

This book studies the budgeting procedures in over 20 organizations of the United Nations system, in particular of the UN in New York, ILO and WHO in Geneva, and UNESCO in Paris.

This book is about what it really means when companies claim to be promoting sustainability and fairness in their global operations.

This book examines the distributional consequences of creating new informal institutions, in particular, exploring explore the ways in which soft law can disrupt political contests over time and transform domestic and global rules.

This book examines the connection between territorial politics and ideological conflict in the global economic sphere, particularly in Latin America, based on in-depth field research in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Organizational Progeny uses fascinating new data on nearly 200 intergovernmental organizations and detailed accounts of the origins of prominent and diverse institutions. It argues that we are experiencing a proliferation of organizational progeny over which national governments are literally losing "control".

This ground-breaking book introduces an authoritative comparative measure of the authority that seventy-six international organizations (IOs) can exert over states

This volume compares processes of constitutional reform in federal and regionalized states.

International organizations have come to play a central role in world politics. The authors present a major new attempt to explain the difference - and the similarities - between them, as well as their crucial role

This volume analyses and identifies the pattern of interaction between state and sub-state EU interest representation in Brussels and reveals the determinants of those patterns.

This key volume by two of the world's leading political scientists aims to theorize the structure of governance below the central state.

This book describes and explains the development of international parliamentary institutions and asks why international organizations establish parliamentary institutions without, however, granting them relevant decision-making powers.

A major new reference work measuring the political authority of regions in 81 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific from 1950 to 2010, providing an introduction to measurement in the social sciences.