Lõuna-Aafrika, Saksamaa ja Mehhiko demokraatiate võrdlus inglise keelne
Why dos tates have territorial politics?
Institutional (functional) explanations
Scale matters
Local councils running armies?
US federal government organising garbage collection?
Big states generally have intermediate (national-regional-local) institutions
ed examples of federal states, all with primarily functional not sociological rationales
Efficient scale of delivery for e.g. heathcare or education
Reflect diversity of preferences from place to place
ost-Hitler
Sociological explanations
as delivering nationwide common standards
Centre-periphery cleavages
ock by decentralising reform, but not much happens [groundhog day]
Territorial politics reflect territorial cleavages, demands for expressions of shared
identity
nizing existing divisions, need to extend service provision, bring govt closer to people
annaabi.ee 
