Rise of Regional Authority - Hooghe, Liesbet (University of North Carolina, USA) a Marks, Gary (Australian Catholic University, Australia) a Schakel, Arjan (University of Edinburgh, UK)

This book measures and explains the formal authority of intermediate or regional general-purpose government in 42 countries from 1950 to 2006. Yielding a complex mosaic of scores across countries and time, the authors identify some simple and fundamental patterns.