• The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway: The periphery strikes again 

      Stein, Jonas; Folkestad, Bjarte; Christensen, Dag Arne; Aars, Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway took place against the backdrop of a historical local and regional amalgamation reform initiated by the Conservative-led government in 2014. We find six key outcomes from ...
    • Farewell note: a decade as RFS Editor 

      Tatham, Michael Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This farewell note reflects on a decade of editorship for Regional & Federal Studies (RFS). It draws on this experience to highlight some areas of change and continuity in the journal’s life, the publishing industry, and ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies 

      Harbers, Imke; Tatham, Michael Robert; Tillin, Louise; Zuber, Christina Isabel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Regional and Federal Studies' 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified ...