responsibility over all federal items. Three further key elements are the subsidiarity principle, federalism and the secession right …

-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing mainly on determinants of capture and local government …-generation federalism theories, such as interjurisdictional spillovers, vertical fiscal relations, the range of devolution, and the …

paper takes up the issue of environmental federalism and the large and growing theoretical literature that addresses the so …

EU enlargement itself to take place. This adds to an understanding why the final outcome of the negotiations led to full …