About

I'm Reader in Comparative Politics at the University of Kent. I held visiting appointments at Harvard, the University of Cologne, Germany, the University of Berne, Switzerland, and the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. My research explores the causes and consequences of the territorial structure of political systems across space and time. It has been funded by the ESRC, the British Academy, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the São Paulo Research Foundation, the James Madison Charitable Trust, the Forum of Federations, Presence Switzerland, and the Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics. I'm the lead investigator behind the De/Centralisation Dataset (https://de-centralisation.org) and the author of Restructuring the European State (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017), Between Two Unions: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution (Manchester University Press, 2005), and articles in European Political Science Review, Political Studies, Acta Politica, Swiss Political Science Review, Party Politics, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Local Government Studies, Nations and Nationalism, and other journals. More information and a full list of publications are available at https://dardanelli.net.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Constitutions, Democracy, European Politics, European Union, Federalism, Institutions, Local Government, National Identity, Nationalism, Political Parties, Referendums and Initiatives, Regionalism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Federalism and Regionalism