Chair
Dr Soeren Keil
soeren.keil@unifr.ch
University of Fribourg
Institute of Federalism
Avenue Beauregard 1
Fribourg 1700
Switzerland
Treasurer
Prof Carol S. Weissert
cweissert@fsu.edu
Florida State University
College of Social Sciences & Public Policy
United States
Officers
Michael Breen
Mariely Lopez-Santana
Juan Cruz Olmeda
Johanna Schnabel
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.
