Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.
1. Measuring regional authority -- 2. Operationalizing regional authority -- 3. Validating the regional authority index -- 4. An era of regionalization.
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This title measures and explains the formal authority of general-purpose government in 42 countries from 1950 to 2006. Yielding a complex mosaic of scores across countries and time, the authors identify some simple and fundamental patterns.