Subnational comparative research has received increasing attention as a method that is academically rigorous and offers in-depth knowledge about specific cases. However, the practical difficulties surrounding the selection of cases to be researched and compared are seldom discussed in a...

The crisis and its aftermath had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this volume show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institutional evolution and adaptation in federal systems. This...

Understanding political finance reform / Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es -- Brazil / Bruno Speck -- Britain / Justin Fisher -- India / Eswaran Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav -- Indonesia / Marcus Mietzner -- Japan / Matthew Carlson -- Russia / Grigorii V. Golosov -- South Africa / Richard...

This authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art reference collection maps the changing landscape of labour mobility in terms of the dialectic between state sovereignty and market-based logic, which is transforming the speed, scope and scale of transboundary migration-for-employment.Faced with...

Introduction: we need to learn from experience / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Kunibert Raffer -- Managing public debt crisis in Argentina : between sovereignty and subordination / Alfredo Calcagno -- Why developing countries should not incur foreign debt : the Brazilian experience / Luiz Carlos...