Chair
Dr. Soeren Keil, University of Fribourg
soeren.keil@unifr.ch
Institute of Federalism
Avenue Beauregard 1
Fribourg 1700
Switzerland
Treasurer
Prof. Mariley Lopez-Santana, George Mason University
mlopezs1@gmu.edu
Membership Officer
Dr. Johanna Schnabel, Freie Universität Berlin
johanna.schnabel@fu-berlin.de
Otto-Suhr Institut
Ihnestrasse 22
Berlin 14195
Germany
Board members
Dr. Michael Breen, University of Melbourne, Australia, michael.breen@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Juan Cruz Olmeda, El Colegio de México, Mexico, jcruzo@colmex.mx
Prof. Yonatan Fessha, Dullah-Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, yfessha@gmail.com
Background
Recognised as study group in 1984; granted research committee status in 1987.
Objectives
RC28 facilitates the pursuit of comparative research and scholarship on federalism, intra-state regionalism, decentralization, and multilevel governance. This includes the theoretical, conceptual, and normative discussion as well as the empirical analysis of territorial power-sharing. Topics of particular interest to RC28 are intergovernmental relations; administrative and fiscal relationships; multilevel political behavior and policy-making; and territorially-based ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. RC28’s comparative attention spans federal, confederal, quasi-federal, as well as non-federal systems, including subnational and supranational political bodies.
