Policy-Making in Federal States: Political Actors and Processes

Abstract

The study of Policy-Analysis has advanced strikingly in the last years. We would like to bring these recent developments to multilevel states, which includes both analyses at the sub-national level and between governance levels. In the federal context, policy-makers operate in a tensional environment between (oftentimes) harmonising policies within the federation and using the room for manoeuvre for their own policy solutions including policy innovations. Thus, we welcome a wide range of papers analysing public policies in different fields below the national level. Papers should focus on political processes and policy-decisions, including actors from politicians and institutions to interest groups or the media. We welcome qualitative as well as quantitative empirical studies, papers dealing with methodological issues, and papers that enhance the study of subnational policy from a theoretical perspective. Papers could include single case studies or take on a comparative perspective.

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