CES: Visiting Scholars' Seminar: New Research on Europe — Exploring and Explaining Devolution in Europe, 1815-2015
Date and Time
April 26, 2017
12:15PM - 01:45PM EDT
Location
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Paolo Dardanelli
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Kent; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University
This talk will seek to identify under what conditions central governments in Europe devolve 'strong' powers to regional governments through a comparative analysis of eighteen European countries since 1815. The first step is to build a conceptual typology of devolution, then to map its occurrence in Europe in the period 1815-2015, and finally to identify which conditions are necessary and/or sufficient for ‘strong’ devolution to occur.