How have regionalization processes across Europe impacted on policy
convergence? This book takes as its starting point the curious fact
that autonomous regional policymaking may be parallel to regional
governments pursuing policy similarity. The author proposes that
these observations are paradoxical only if sector-specific policy
norms are disregarded and when autonomy is considered as the
exclusive goal of regional governments. Focusing on common yet
under-studied regional situations where a sense of cultural or
historical distinctiveness is not readily apparent, if at all, the
book argues that in policy sectors where norms of territorial
equality have long been dominant, regional governments endorse them
as a way to secure or expand their policy capacity when the central
state or other policy entrepreneurs challenge it. This results in
converging policies. A textured comparative account of educational
policymaking in German Lander and French conseils regionaux over
three decades forms the backbone of this analysis of policymaking
in ordinary regions.
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