The regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis is highly heterogeneous, with significant implications for management policy responses. This paper takes an in-depth look at territorial across its different dimensions: health, economic, social fiscal. It provides a comprehensive overview national subnational government response measures to manage vaccination campaigns levels mitigate effect...

Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of nation...

Regional development is ‘man-shaped’. This article calls for more engagement with the feminist concept of futurity by bringing together and troubling masculine-coded understandings regional development, leadership power over time space. It argues that continuing to neglect politics practices in studies stifles conceptual practical advances subnational development. Drawing on example UK at a gov...

This paper investigates the effects of multi-layer tax arrangements on compliance norms and behaviours individuals in 49 Latin American African countries. To date, literature predominantly portrays government-taxpayer relationship as bilateral. In practice, however, taxpayers have multiple payment obligations often towards more than one tier government. argues for consideration multi-level cros...

Elections are at the heart of representative democracies. Whereas study national elections is a prominent field in comparative politics, we still know little about subnational political actors’ behaviour. We seek to close this gap by applying dictionary coding approach analyse parties’ issue-based content 743 manifestos Austria and Germany. show that parties emphasize regional topics less if ha...

Russia and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States that have implemented voucher privatization programs have to account for the puzzling behavior of insiders—manager-owners—who, in stripping assets from the firms they own, appear to be stealing from one pocket to fill the other. This article suggests that asset stripping and the absence of restructuring result from interaction...