Chair
Dr Paolo Dardanelli
University of Kent, United Kingdom
p.dardanelli@kent.ac.uk
Vice-Chair
Professor Thomas D. Lancaster
Emory University, United States
polstdl@emory.edu
Secretary
Professor Wolfgang Renzsch
University of Magdeburg, Germany
renzsch@ovgu.de
Treasurer
Professor Carol S. Weissert
Florida State University, United States
cweissert@fsu.edu
Officers
Prof. Harihar Bhattacharyya, University of Burdwan, India, harihar59@gmail.com
Dr Soeren Keil, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom, keil.soeren@gmail.com
Background
Recognised as study group in 1984; granted research committee status in 1987.
Objectives
RC28 facilitates the pursuit of comparative research and scholarship on federalism, intra-state regionalism, decentralization, and multilevel governance. This includes the theoretical, conceptual, and normative discussion as well as the empirical analysis of territorial power-sharing. Topics of particular interest to RC28 are intergovernmental relations; administrative and fiscal relationships; multilevel political behavior and policy-making; and territorially-based ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. RC28’s comparative attention spans federal, confederal, quasi-federal, as well as non-federal systems, including subnational and supranational political bodies.
