Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Author "Schakel, Arjan Hille"
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Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort
Collazos-Ortiz, Maria Antonieta; Schakel, Arjan Hille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The term ‘paradox of the plenty’ was coined to describe an often-found inverse relationship between royalty revenue and economic development. The main causal mechanism is thought to be a substitution effect whereby governments ... -
Dissecting Public Opinion on Regional Authority: Four Types of Regionalists Based on Citizens’ Preferences for Self-Rule and Shared Rule
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Brown, A. J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although regional governments play vital roles in most political systems, citizens’ perceptions regarding regional authority are only rarely studied. Relying on the International Constitutional Values Survey held among ... -
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Verdoes, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties in national government and reward opposition, small and new parties because there is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ... -
Horizontal and vertical spill-over in multilevel electoral systems
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Romanova, Valentyna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A multilevel electoral system perspective reveals several ways in which electoral spill-over may occur. Vertical spill-over may be top-down from the national to the regional level or can be bottom-up from the regional to ... -
The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship
Vink, Maarten; Schakel, Arjan Hille; Reichel, David; Chun Luk, Ngo; de Groot, Gerard-René (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-13)While the global increase of expatriate dual citizenship acceptance over the past decades has been widely observed, the temporal and spatial contexts of this trend have remained understudied. Based on a novel data set of ... -
Internationalisation and study success: Class attendance and the delicate balance between collaborative learning and being lost in translation
Bijsmans, Patrick; Schakel, Arjan Hille; Baykal, Asena; Hegewald, Sven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The internationalisation of Higher Education is broadly seen as a positive development. It is a process that is said to contribute to intercultural skills acquisition, which is deemed crucial in today’s globalised society. ... -
Moving beyond the second-order election model?: Three generations of regional election research
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Romanova, Valentyna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this introduction to the sixth annual review of regional elections we identify three generations of regional election studies that have applied the second-order election (SOE) model. First-generation literature finds ... -
Multi-level governance in a “Europe with the regions”.
Schakel, Arjan Hille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)The concept of multilevel governance was introduced to reveal the impact of regions on European Union (EU) policy making in Brussels. In this contribution, I show that multilevel governance also exposes regional involvement ... -
Regional assemblies and executives, regional authority, and the strategic manipulation of regional elections in electoral autocracies
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Romanova, Valentyna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this introduction, we set out to analyse the relationship between regional elections and regional authority and the extent to which regional elections are held free and fair. We hypothesize that the incentives to interfere ... -
Regional spillover into third-order European elections
Schakel, Arjan Hille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Second-order election research clearly reveals that national incumbency impacts on European election outcomes but despite the increasing importance of regions few studies explore the impact of regional politics. I theorize ... -
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self-rule and for shared rule
Schakel, Arjan Hille; Smith, Rodney (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent survey research has revealed a ‘devolution paradox’: some citizens who favour stronger regional governments inconsistently desire policy uniformity across regions and state-wide intervention in policy provision. It ...