European Centre for Research on Federalism

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Research focus

• Regionalism / regionalisation
• Europaenization
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Enlargement
• Regional policy

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Contributions to the Yearbook on Federalism

• 2008: Regionalisierung in Rumänien: Zwischen historischen Regionen und NUTS 2-Entwicklungsregionen, in: Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2008, pp. 380-392.
• 2006: Die Region als politisch-kultureller Raum: Voraussetzungen für gesellschaftliche Regionalisierung in Polen, Ungarn und Rumänien, in: Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2006, pp. 27-43 (together with Jürgen Dieringer, Roland Sturm, Monika Olewinska).

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Other publications (selection)

• From historical regions to local decentralisation via the unitary state, in: John Loughlin, Frank Hendriks, Anders Lidström (eds.): The handbook of subnational democracy in the EU, Oxford: OUP 2009 (forthcoming).
• Designing and justifying regional reforms: Lessons from Romania, in: Policy and Politics, vol. 36, no. 4 (2008), pp. 587-600.
• The dynamics of europeanisation and regionalisation: The case of regional reconstruction in Romania, in: Perspectives on European politics and society, 2009 (forthcoming).
• Europeanisation and domestic territorial change: the Spanish and Romanian cases of territorial adaptation in the context of EU enlargement, in: The Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, vol. 7, no. 3 (2005), pp. 351-366.

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