TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garritzmann, Julian L.
A1  - Röth, Leonce
A1  - Kleider, Hanna
T1  - Policy-making in multi-level systems: ideology, authority, and education
T2  - Comparative political studies
N2  - Most political systems consist of multiple layers. While this fact is widely acknowledged, we know surprisingly little about its implications for policy-making. Most comparative studies still focus exclusively on the national level. We posit that both “methodological nationalism” and “methodological subnationalism” should be avoided. We argue instead that in multilevel systems national and subnational governments jointly affect policy-making. Their respective influence is, however, conditional on the distribution of policy authority. Moreover, we identify power asymmetries, as subnational governments hardly affect policy-making in centralized systems whereas national governments shape subnational policy-making even in decentralized polities. Empirically, we study the case of education policy. Novel data on regional education spending, regional and national governments’ ideology, and regional authority over education in 282 regions in 15 countries over 21 years reveals strong support for the interplay between ideology and the distribution of authority across levels. We conclude by sketching a resulting research agenda.
KW  - education policy
KW  - education politics and policy
KW  - social investment
KW  - regional authority
KW  - subnational politics
KW  - party politics
KW  - decentralization
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62482
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624825
SN  - 1552-3829
N1  - The  authors  disclosed  receipt  of  the  following  financial  support  for  the  research,  authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the German Research Foundation under grant numbers GZ: KA 1741/10-1 and KA 1741/10-2.
VL  - 2021
SP  - 1
EP  - 36
PB  - Sage
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.]
ER  -