Non-Federal Approaches to Regionalism

Abstract

In this panel we look at different approaches to either analysing, or conceptualising, structures in which accommodations and agreements at the regional level do not take overtly federal turns. In this panel we discuss the role of sub-national elites and political parties in formulating and implementing decentralising policy; we hear on the influence of environmental issues on cooperation; on the viability of alternative models to federalism, and on novel methodological approaches to the study of regionalism at regional and local levels. This panel challenges classic, mainstream approaches to examining the development of regional cooperation inherent in federalism, neo-functionalism and structural approaches.

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