Public Policy and Policy Diversity Below the National Level

Abstract

Subnational policies operate under a tension between diversity on the one hand and uniformity on the other hand. This is most pronounced in federal systems, but equally valid for other decentralised polities. Thus, we welcome a wide range of papers analysing public policies below the national level. This panel brings together scholars studying the restraints and opportunities for policy-making on the sub-national level, cooperation and competition between sub-national entities, the tension between diversity and uniformity that characterize federal states, as well as the drivers of policy diversity under these circumstances. The panel invites papers addressing the topic in an empirical, theoretical or methodological fashion. We welcome qualitative as well as quantitative empirical studies, papers addressing methodological perspectives and caveats in the study of federalism and regional public policy, and papers that enhance the study of subnational policy from a theoretical perspective – be it through the eyes of socio-economic approaches, policy theories, executive governance, political culture or any other suitable theoretical framework.

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