New RSA Blog 🌍✍️ by Johanna Schnabel (@jos38.bsky.social) : Can Devolution Reduce Regional Inequality in the UK?
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇
🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Found this insightful!!
NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
Is education a postcode lottery? Dive into the latest PSJ blog post examining how regional authority, spending, and demographics drive inequality across OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/10/a...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
An important conversation that I am eager to continue. Any thoughts?
Many thanks to Alan Fenna, André Lecours, Carmen Navarro, and Juan Olmeda for an insightful discussion. Two of our panelists expressed a rather cautious view, while the others saw greater promise.
At the recent @ipsa.org World Congress I had the pleasure of chairing a roundtable on this question, sponsored by RC28.
🤔 🤓 Is comparative federalism able to provide explanatory insights or is it entirely a heuristic exercise to identify similarities and differences across federations? And which aspects of federalism can be meaningfully compared?
Explore this PSJ article from our latest issue examining how differences in authority, spending, and population size fuel regional educational inequality - drawing on data from 14 OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Gemeinsam Politik im föderalen System besser verstehen und analysieren Transdisziplinärer Workshop Wann? Wo? 1. April 2025, 09:30 Uhr bis 16:30 Uhr Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund, In den Ministergärten 8, 10117 Berlin Programm 09:1509:3010:1513:0014:0015:1515:3016:30Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Ankommen Begrüßung & Einführung Überblick über den Projektkontext Transdisziplinäre Potentiale von „StateParl“ entdecken Interaktive Einführung Szenario-Entwicklung in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen Kennenlernen Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Fragestellung Bearbeitung mit den verschiedenen Werkzeugen von „StateParl“ Mittagspause Bu[et in der Landesvertretung Prototyping in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen Beantwortung der Fragestellung Empfehlungen für die Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung von „StateParl“ Pause Ergebnisse und Reflexion Ende
Morgen ist es soweit: In einem transdisziplinären Workshop loten wir die Möglichkeiten der Landesparlaments-Datenbank stateparl.de für Wissenschaft, Journalismus, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft aus. Die Veranstaltung wird durch die @berlinualliance.bsky.social möglich gemacht. 🫶
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You can win that one if you promise to never misuse the term “shared rule” again 🤭
Wait until you see our rejoinder. 😉
Oh yes! Should be published any moment.
And a thought-provoking reply 😎
Federalism = self-rule + shared rule *or not*? 🤔
Publius editors @philiprocco.bsky.social & Paul Nolette have allowed Thomas Hueglin & me to comment on @jos38.bsky.social & Alan Fenna's thought provoking 2024 piece ✍️
For our project Territorial Inequality in Education, Johanna Schnabel @jos38.bsky.social , Paolo Dardanelli, Steven Ballantyne, and I are looking for an RA to support data collection. The position is based at Cardiff University and will be supervised by me. polisky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT184/r...
📚✨Interested in #AffordableHousing and #federalism? In this study 👇, Antonios Souris and I develop an analytical framework to lay the groundwork for future investigations into affordable housing 🏘️ in federal countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 New Publication: 📑 "A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems"
🔗 Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The ECPR Standing Group on Federalism & Regionalism is now on Bluesky!
We already have an announcement. You can submit paper & panel proposals for the the next ECPR conference by 6 January 2025.
The SG is endorsing Section 15. More info 👇
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Key Findings:
🏫 Regions with high levels of authority over #education tend to have greater inequalities in educational access and attainment.
👨👩👦👦 Regional differences in education expenditure and population size also play a role in driving these disparities.
In this study, I analyze educational inequality across regions in 14 OECD countries, uncovering factors that contribute to regional disparities in student enrollment and educational attainment.
📢 New Publication: 📑 "A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems"
🔗 Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
A map of German states with the average evaluation of people from each state.
Today is German Unity Day. But how unified is Germany? To celebrate, I want to share some data from a project with @lenamasch.bsky.social, @jos38.bsky.social and Antonios Souris on how "popular" people from different German states are - and how this evaluation differs. Here is it for everyone:
📚✨Interested in #AffordableHousing and #federalism? In this study 👇, Antonios Souris and I develop an analytical framework to lay the groundwork for future investigations into affordable housing 🏘️ in federal countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How do politicians use complex institutions, like federal structures, to assign and deflect blame?
Short answer: More smartly than we have commonly conceptualised. Beyond simply "scapegoating" other actors, they also make use of the institutional framework and simply "pass the responsibility"
