Working Group: Federalism & Territorial Politics
Programme
Panel Schedule "Local and Urban Politics in Multilevel Systems"
SVPW Congress, 30/31 January 2014, University of Berne
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 13h30–16h00; Chair: Oscar Mazzoleni
Keynote speech by Prof. A Lidström
- Assessing Democratic Urban Governance: Towards a Comparative Framework (Dlabac); discussant: Lambelet
- Urban Power in two Swiss metropolises (Lambelet); discussant: Dlabac
Friday, 31 January 2014, 9h30–12h30; Chair: Oliver Dlabac
- Theorizing positioning strategies of secondary capital cities: Forerunner Washington D.C., Laggard Bern? (Kaufmann) discussant: Mazzoleni/Pilotti
- Institutional Constraints, Party Policy Conflict and Coalition Formation in Multilevel Systems: Evidence from the German Local Level (Debus & Gross); discussant: Mueller
- Explaining communal merging in Swiss urban landscapes: the City of Lugano (Mazzoleni & Pilotti); discussant: Kaufmann
- Fewer, Bigger, Stronger? The Political Consequences of Local Government Mergers in Switzerland (Mueller); discussants: Debus/Gross
Friday, 31 January 2014; 14h00–16h00; Chair: Sean Mueller
- Fiscal policies in federal countries during times of crises (Ruiz & Trein); discussant: Cappelletti
- The political economy of formula‐based transfers: evidence from the Swiss cantons (Cappelletti); discussants: Ruiz/Trein
Final debate and closing note by Prof. A Lidström
