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.
- Current Debates on Federalism and Multi-Level Governance
Chair: Prof. Jared Sonnicksen - Current Debates on Federalism and Multi-Level Governance in Europe
Chair: Prof. Jared Sonnicksen - Federalism and Democracy
Chair: Prof. Harihar Bhattacharyya - Federalism and Democracy
Chair: Prof. Harihar Bhattacharyya - Federalism in Latin America
- Federalism in Latin America
- Federalism in Latin America
- Federalism in Latin America
Chair: Dr. Juan Olmeda - Federalism in Latin America
- Federalism in Latin America
Chair: Dr. Juan Olmeda - Federalism in the Global South
- Federalism in the Global South
- Federalism in the Global South
Chair: Prof. Yonatan Fessha - Federalism in the Global South
Chair: Prof. Yonatan Fessha - Federalism in the Global South
Chair: Prof. Yonatan Fessha - Federalism in the Global South
- Federalism Innovation and the Nexus of Participation
Chair: Prof. Eduardo Grin - Federalism, Innovation, and the Nexus of Participation.
Chair: Prof. Eduardo Grin - Federalism, Local Government and Participation
- Federalism, Local Government and Participation
- Multi-Level Governance and Intergovernmental Relation
Chair: Dr. Mariely Lopez-Santana - Multi-Level Governance and Intergovernmental Relations
Chair: Dr. Mariely Lopez-Santana - Political Agency Beyond Sovereignty: How Non-State Political Communities Sustain Political Agency
Chair: Prof. André Lecours - Public Policy in Multilevel Systems
Chair: Dr. Johanna Schnabel - Public Policy in Multilevel Systems
Chair: Dr. Johanna Schnabel











