This is the first of five ambitious volumes theorizing the
structure of governance above and below the central state. This
book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and
consequences of governance within the state and for social
scientists who take measurement seriously. The book sets out a
measure of regional authority for 81 countries in North America,
Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific from 1950 to 2010.
Subnational authority is exercised by individual regions, and this
measure is the first that takes individual regions as the unit of
analysis. On the premise that transparency is a fundamental virtue
in measurement, the authors chart a new path in laying out their
theoretical, conceptual, and scoring decisions before the reader.
The book also provides summaries of regional governance in 81
countries for scholars and students alike. Transformations in
Governance is a major new academic book series from Oxford
University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive
growth of research in comparative politics, international
relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban
studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central
states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational
governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings
together work that significantly advances our understanding of the
organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex
governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small
number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and
emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or
co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary
specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope.
Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as
contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or
international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use
qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A
trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with
readable prose and an attractive production style. The series is
edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of
the University of Oxford.
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