The more the merrier: Accounting for regional paradiplomats in Brussels

Michaël Tatham and Mads Thau

European Union Politics, 2014, vol. 15, issue 2, 255-276

Abstract: Although talk of a ‘Europe of the regions’ has come and gone, regions have come to Brussels but stayed. While such mobilisation has not led to the emergence of a ‘third level’, regional officials in Brussels sometimes outnumber their peers from their country’s permanent representation. Considering the perseverance and size of such a presence, we explore what factors best account for it. To this end, a series of multi-level models inform us about its determinants. Controlling for a number of economic and demographic factors, we find that different dimensions of regional authority matter when accounting for regional presence in Brussels. These findings stress the importance of domestic institutional factors when analysing the extent to which regions project themselves supranationally.

Keywords: European integration; multi-level governance; regional authority; regional interest representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116513512539

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