TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring and theorizing regional governance
AU - Eaton, Kent
AU - Faguet, Jean Paul
AU - Harbers, Imke
AU - Schakel, Arjan H.
AU - Hooghe, Liesbet
AU - Marks, Gary
AU - Niedzwiecki, Sara
AU - Osterkatz, Sandra Chapman
AU - Shair-Rosenfield, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions [grant number 656361].
Funding Information:
The Regional Authority Index (RAI) project was funded by the European Research Council [advanced ERC grant number 249543] and the European Commission [grant number 2655307]. An update for 43 European and OECD countries to 2016, funded by a grant from the European Commission, will be released in autumn 2018 (#2016.CE.16.BAT.079; Schakel, Danailova, Gein, & Hegewald, forthcoming). The authors are expanding the data set to 10 additional Asian countries (Shair-Rosenfield, forthcoming), plus the Ukraine, India and China. These extensions and updates are funded by a research fund at Arizona State University, and the Kenan and Burton Craige research funds at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Regional Studies Association.
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - This symposium Regional Authority and the Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance engages two recent books on regional governance. The first sets out a measure of regional authority for 81 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific between 1950 and 2010. The second theorizes how regional governance is shaped by functional and communal pressures. These pressures are detected in many historical episodes of jurisdictional reform. These books seek to pin them down empirically. Community and efficiency appear to have tangible and contrasting effects that explain how jurisdictions are designed, why regional governance has become differentiated and how multilevel governance has deepened over the past several decades. The symposium consists of contributions by Kent Eaton, Jean-Paul Faguet and Imke Harbers followed by a response from the authors: Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; and Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, with Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
AB - This symposium Regional Authority and the Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance engages two recent books on regional governance. The first sets out a measure of regional authority for 81 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific between 1950 and 2010. The second theorizes how regional governance is shaped by functional and communal pressures. These pressures are detected in many historical episodes of jurisdictional reform. These books seek to pin them down empirically. Community and efficiency appear to have tangible and contrasting effects that explain how jurisdictions are designed, why regional governance has become differentiated and how multilevel governance has deepened over the past several decades. The symposium consists of contributions by Kent Eaton, Jean-Paul Faguet and Imke Harbers followed by a response from the authors: Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; and Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, with Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
KW - community
KW - decentralization
KW - multilevel governance
KW - regions
KW - scale
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U2 - 10.1080/21622671.2018.1445021
DO - 10.1080/21622671.2018.1445021
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85044619521
SN - 2162-2671
VL - 7
SP - 265
EP - 283
JO - Territory, Politics, Governance
JF - Territory, Politics, Governance
IS - 2
ER -