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Arjan H. Schakel

Arjan H. Schakel

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Political Science

D-Index
26
Citations
4832
World Ranking
1508
National Ranking
26

Overview

Arjan H. Schakel is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their work spans several subfields including linguistics and language, strategy and management, sociology and political science, and education.

The main topics addressed in Schakel's research include:

  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Recent publications by Schakel encompass a range of subjects mainly centered on multilevel governance and regional politics. Notable papers include:

  • Multi-level governance in a 'Europe with the regions', 2020, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
  • Regional spillover into third-order European elections, 2021, Governance
  • Vertical linkages between regional and national electoral arenas and their impact on multilevel democracy, 2020, Regional & Federal Studies

Other frequently cited works co-authored with different researchers explore language differences and regional authority, as well as the factors influencing Euroscepticism among regionalist parties. These include:

  • Language difference and regional authority, 2020, Regional & Federal Studies
  • From staunch supporters to critical observers: Explaining the turn towards Euroscepticism among regionalist parties, 2021, European Union Politics

Schakel has published predominantly in the journal Regional & Federal Studies, with a total of seven publications there. Additional work has appeared in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Union Politics, and Governance.

Frequent collaborative research partners include Valentyna Romanova, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Emanuele Massetti, and Alexander Verdoes, each contributing to several joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The Rise of Regional Authority: A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies

    Liesbet Hooghe;Gary Wolfe Marks;Arjan H. Schakel

  • The Rise of Regional Authority

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  • Measuring Regional Authority

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  • Measuring Regional Authority

    Gary Marks;Liesbet Hooghe;Arjan H. Schakel

  • Patterns of regional authority

    Gary Marks;Liesbet Hooghe;Arjan H. Schakel

  • Are Regional Elections really ‘Second-Order’ Elections?

    Arjan H. Schakel;Charlie Jeffery

  • The Rise of Regional Authority: A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies (1950-2006)

    E.A.E.B. Hooghe;G.W. Marks;A.H. Schakel

  • Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume I

    Liesbet Hooghe;Gary Marks;Arjan H. Schakel;Sandra Chapman Osterkatz

  • Operationalizing Regional Authority: A Coding Scheme for 42 Countries, 1950–2006

    Liesbet Hooghe;Gary W Marks;Arjan H. Schakel

  • Congruence Between Regional and National Elections

    Arjan H. Schakel

  • Between autonomy and secession: Decentralization and regionalist party ideological radicalism

    Emanuele Massetti;Arjan H Schakel

  • From class to region: How regionalist parties link (and subsume) left-right into centre-periphery politics

    Emanuele Massetti;Arjan H Schakel

  • Nationalisation of Multilevel Party Systems: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

    Arjan H. Schakel

  • Multilevel Governance and the State

    Arjan H. Schakel;Liesbet Hooghe;Gary Marks

  • Validation of the Regional Authority Index

    Arjan Schakel

  • Language difference and regional authority

    Sarah Shair-Rosenfield;Arjan H. Schakel;Sara Niedzwiecki;Gary Marks

  • Country and regional scores

    E.A.E.B. Hooghe;A.H. Schakel;G.W. Marks

  • Explaining Regional and Local Government: An Empirical Test of the Decentralization Theorem

    Arjan H. Schakel

  • The impact of attendance on first-year study success in problem-based learning

    Patrick Bijsmans;Arjan H. Schakel

  • The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship

    Maarten Vink;Arjan Hille Schakel;David Reichel;Ngo Chun Luk

  • Ideology matters: Why decentralisation has a differentiated effect on regionalist parties' fortunes in Western democracies

    Emanuele Massetti;Arjan H. Schakel

  • Regional and National Elections in Western Europe. Territoriality of the Vote in Thirteen Countries

    Régis Dandoy;Arjan H. Schakel

  • Electoral Cycles and Turnout in Multilevel Electoral Systems

    Arjan H. Schakel;Régis Dandoy

  • Decentralisation Reforms and Regionalist Parties’ Strength: Accommodation, Empowerment or Both?:

    Emanuele Massetti;Arjan H Schakel

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charlie Jeffery
Charlie Jeffery University of York
Maarten Peter Vink
Maarten Peter Vink Maastricht University
Kent Eaton
Kent Eaton University of California, Santa Cruz

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