Captures some of the debates of the Trump Presidency, especially the contestation of the 2020 elections, offering another dimension of the immanent fragmentation of American politics. Commands diverse literatures in American politics, political development, comparative politics, and law, and brings together ideas and research from each field.

Captures some of the debates of the Trump Presidency, especially the contestation of the 2020 elections, offering another dimension of the immanent fragmentation of American politics. Commands diverse literatures in American politics, political development, comparative politics, and law, and brings together ideas and research from each field.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems. The book features a collection of cutting-edge trans-Atlantic contributions, covering topics such as federalism, decentralization as well as various forms and processes of regionalization and Europeanization. While the field of multilevel governance is comparatively young, research in the subject has also come of age as considerable theoretical, conceptual and empirical advances have been achieved since the first influential works were published in the early noughties. The present volume aims to gauge the state-of-the-art in the different research areas as it brings together a selection of original contributions that are united by a variety of configurations, dynamics and mechanisms related to governing in multilevel systems.

Jared Sonnicksen geht der Frage nach, wie sich das bestehende Regierungssystem der Europaischen Union demokratisieren liesse. Auf Basis der klassischen Unterscheidung zwischen prasidentiellem oder parlamentarischem Regierungssystem untersucht er, ob ein direktgewahlter Kommissionsprasident mit der bisherigen Entwicklung und Funktionsweise des EU-Institutionensystems vereinbar ware."

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains considerable uncertainty about how rules or patterns of politics between the executive and legislative branches interact. Combining theoretical analyses and selected case studies, Federal Democracies at Work contributes to our understanding of the complex relations between federalism and democracy. Throughout the volume, contributing authors elaborate and apply an innovative analytical framework to provide greater clarity on the complex relations between federalism and democracy. As a whole, the volume explores how different institutional configurations of federal democracies alleviate or intensify inherent tensions; how actors grapple and cope with the challenge of these complexities; and how structures evolve as a result of rising conflicts and institutional reforms or adjustments. In doing so, Federal Democracies at Work advances research on comparative federalism and works toward a better understanding of how these compound systems work.