The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central

Although state transformation – continuous struggle and bargaining between rulers and their subjects, producing an unpredictable variety of political structur

There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polyce

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesar's hegemony, Augustus's autocr