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Intergovernmental Relations in the UK
Territorial politics, intergovernmental relations and federalism
Territorial politics has become a field of study that covers a diverse range of
disciplines, including geography, economics, sociology, law and of course
politics, to study social and political communities as well as the multi-
level structures within and also beyond state boundaries (Hepburn and
Detterbeck 2018, 2–3).1 This book is particularly interested in the constitu-
tional and institutional design of territorial politics, the allocation of power
and the relations between central and decentralised levels of government
within states. Looking at legislative, fiscal and administrative competences
and authority seems a legitimate starting point to understand how power-
ful or autonomous substate or regional governments are. Yet, even though
many scholars have found a growing decentralisation of power in multilevel
polities (see e.g. Hutchcroft 2001; Schneider 2003; Agranoff 2004; Gerber
and Kollman 2004; Rodden 2004; Marks et al. 2008; Mueller 2011; Falleti
2013; Hooghe et al. 2016), merely examining levels of decentralisation does
not allow for a sufficiently complex analysis of territorial power (Behnke
2018, 31).
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