B<sc>äck</sc> H., D<sc>ebus</sc> M., M<sc>üller</sc> J. and B<sc>äck</sc> H. Regional government formation in varying multilevel contexts: a comparison of eight European countries, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Although governance in multilevel settings has become a prominent research field in political science, there are few comparative...

In this article, we address recent claims that executive— legislative relations in parliamentary democracies are undergoing important changes owing to either a `presidentialization' or a `Europeanization' of domestic political systems. Therefore, we test empirically whether parliamentary...