This thesis addresses the question as to why multilevel politics is becoming an integral part of politics in Europe. Multilevel politics is conceptualized as a system which functions through a complex web of political relations within and across levels of decision making. The thesis argues that the rise of multilevel politics can be explained by its institutionalization in terms of the emergence, the evolution and especially the effects of relevant institutions. Based on a mixed-method research project, the influence of European institutions on subnational actors and the alignment of actor motives with institutional characteristics are empirically shown. The first chapter of the dissertation establishes the centrality of institutions for political transformation, examines the role of transnational and domestic institutions for multilevel politics, and contextualizes the research question in terms of institution-actor relations. The second chapter develops a new-institutionalist theoretical framework that explains the emergence, the evolution and the effects of the institutions, and formulates a series of hypotheses with regard to freestanding institutional influence, power distribution, material benefits and political identification. The third chapter outlines the mixed-method research design which addresses individual-level and institutional-level variations through a Europe-wide survey and a comparative case study. The fourth chapter on survey results shows generally favourable views on multilevel politics, and strong associations of these views with the independent variables under scrutiny. The fifth chapter specifies a multivariate model which includes all posited variables and confirms the majority of the hypotheses. Therefore, the new-institutionalist argument is broadly confirmed, while there is relatively weak evidence to sustain sociological explanations. The final chapter compares the Committee of the Regions and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, and examines the institutional characteristics which correspond to the hypothesized variables. It is then concluded that the two institutions share several overarching similarities, and display complementarity in other aspects.

O regionalismo tem sido tema de discussões incansáveis, especialmente nas letras gaúchas, que têm um dos regionalismos mais bem definidos da literatura brasileira. Com este trabalho, buscamos entender quando se deu o início desta categoria, no gênero conto, na literatura do estado do Rio Grande do Sul e como avançou pelo século XX. Neste estudo, debruçamo-nos sobre as obras: Tapera, de Alcides Maya (1911), Contos gauchescos, de João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo fora, de Cyro Martins (1934), e Noite de matar um homem, de Sérgio Faraco (1986), por entendermos serem pontos determinantes de uma escalada do regionalismo no conto gaúcho. O escritor com o primeiro trabalho de ficção regionalista, na concepção típica do termo, no gênero de que estamos tratando é Maya; depois dele temos um nome que é referência no conto gaúcho, Lopes Neto; a seguir, com uma pausa de mais de duas décadas, encontramos o ―gaúcho a pé‖, figura criada por Martins e, com uma lacuna bem maior, surge o contemporâneo Faraco, que dedicou uma parte expressiva de sua produção ficcional para o conto regionalista. Nenhum grande valor das letras gaúchas surgiu depois dele até os dias de hoje. A fundamentação teórica amparou-se em Lúcia-Miguel Pereira e seu conceito de "cor local"; em José Clemente Pozzenato, por meio de suas discussões em torno do regional X universal; Antonio Candido, que traz uma tríplice divisão lúcida do regionalismo literário, à luz de teorias em torno da necessidade de acrescer consciência social e amplitude universal a esta categoria; além de Guilhermino Cesar, que nos fornece um importante diferenciador para o regionalismo gaúcho, que é "a gauchesca". Esses teóricos e os autores ficcionais de nosso estudo ajudam a esclarecer os rumos que o regionalismo gaúcho tomou no conto do Rio Grande do Sul no século XX. / Regionalism has been the theme of tireless discussions, especially in Regional Gaucha lyrics, which have one of the most definite regionalisms in the Brazilian Literature. This work searches to understand when this category started, in the short story genre, in the literature of Rio Grande do Sul State and how it headed through the XX century. In this study, we lean over the works: Tapera, by Alcides Maya (1911), Contos Gauchescos, by João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo for a, by Cyro Martins (1934), and Noite de matar um homem, by Sérgio Faraco (1986), as we understand them to be determinant points from a rising to regionalism, in the typical concept of the term, in the genre we are dealing with is Maya; after him there is a name which is reference in the Gaucho short stories, Lopes Neto; and after that, with a halt of more than two decades, we meet the ‗walking gaucho‘, image created by Martins and, with an even bigger gap, appears the contemporaneous Faraco, who dedicated an expressive part of his fictional production to the regionalist short stories.(Continue)0 No other great name, in the gaucho writing, appeared after him, until the present days. The theoretical fundamentation and the support of Lúcia-Miguel Pereira and her concept of "local color"; José Clemente Pozzenato through his discussion around regional x universal. Antonio Candido, who a triple lucid division of the literary regionalism, under the light of the theories which go around the need to add social conscience and universal amplitude to this category; besides Ghilhermino Cesar, who gives us an important differentiating point to the Gaucho Regionalism, which is "the gauchesca". There theoretic and fictional authors of our study help to clear the rumors that the gaucho regionalism took, in the short stories of Rio Grande do Sul, in the XX century.

This study sought to establish the critical underpinnings for the organisational effectiveness of regional integration institutions (RIIs). The interest arose out of a general observation of failure by RIIs in Africa to effectively achieve the objectives for which they were established. Informed by theories of organisational effectiveness, the study hypothesised that RIIs are likely to be effective in achieving the objectives for which they were established if the basic fundamentals of organisational effectiveness theory are embedded in their institutional structures, systems and processes. The East African Community (EAC) was used as a unit of analysis. A comparative analysis of the world's most advanced RII, the European Union (EU) was also undertaken. The findings revealed that the basic fundamentals of organisational effectiveness theory are only weakly ingrained in the EAC while deeply embedded in the EU. Recommendations were made on how the EAC could improve its organisational effectiveness. / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / MA (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)

O regionalismo tem sido tema de discussões incansáveis, especialmente nas letras gaúchas, que têm um dos regionalismos mais bem definidos da literatura brasileira. Com este trabalho, buscamos entender quando se deu o início desta categoria, no gênero conto, na literatura do estado do Rio Grande do Sul e como avançou pelo século XX. Neste estudo, debruçamo-nos sobre as obras: Tapera, de Alcides Maya (1911), Contos gauchescos, de João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo fora, de Cyro Martins (1934), e Noite de matar um homem, de Sérgio Faraco (1986), por entendermos serem pontos determinantes de uma escalada do regionalismo no conto gaúcho. O escritor com o primeiro trabalho de ficção regionalista, na concepção típica do termo, no gênero de que estamos tratando é Maya; depois dele temos um nome que é referência no conto gaúcho, Lopes Neto; a seguir, com uma pausa de mais de duas décadas, encontramos o ―gaúcho a pé‖, figura criada por Martins e, com uma lacuna bem maior, surge o contemporâneo Faraco, que dedicou uma parte expressiva de sua produção ficcional para o conto regionalista. Nenhum grande valor das letras gaúchas surgiu depois dele até os dias de hoje. A fundamentação teórica amparou-se em Lúcia-Miguel Pereira e seu conceito de "cor local"; em José Clemente Pozzenato, por meio de suas discussões em torno do regional X universal; Antonio Candido, que traz uma tríplice divisão lúcida do regionalismo literário, à luz de teorias em torno da necessidade de acrescer consciência social e amplitude universal a esta categoria; além de Guilhermino Cesar, que nos fornece um importante diferenciador para o regionalismo gaúcho, que é "a gauchesca". Esses teóricos e os autores ficcionais de nosso estudo ajudam a esclarecer os rumos que o regionalismo gaúcho tomou no conto do Rio Grande do Sul no século XX. / Regionalism has been the theme of tireless discussions, especially in Regional Gaucha lyrics, which have one of the most definite regionalisms in the Brazilian Literature. This work searches to understand when this category started, in the short story genre, in the literature of Rio Grande do Sul State and how it headed through the XX century. In this study, we lean over the works: Tapera, by Alcides Maya (1911), Contos Gauchescos, by João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo for a, by Cyro Martins (1934), and Noite de matar um homem, by Sérgio Faraco (1986), as we understand them to be determinant points from a rising to regionalism, in the typical concept of the term, in the genre we are dealing with is Maya; after him there is a name which is reference in the Gaucho short stories, Lopes Neto; and after that, with a halt of more than two decades, we meet the ‗walking gaucho‘, image created by Martins and, with an even bigger gap, appears the contemporaneous Faraco, who dedicated an expressive part of his fictional production to the regionalist short stories.(Continue)0 No other great name, in the gaucho writing, appeared after him, until the present days. The theoretical fundamentation and the support of Lúcia-Miguel Pereira and her concept of "local color"; José Clemente Pozzenato through his discussion around regional x universal. Antonio Candido, who a triple lucid division of the literary regionalism, under the light of the theories which go around the need to add social conscience and universal amplitude to this category; besides Ghilhermino Cesar, who gives us an important differentiating point to the Gaucho Regionalism, which is "the gauchesca". There theoretic and fictional authors of our study help to clear the rumors that the gaucho regionalism took, in the short stories of Rio Grande do Sul, in the XX century.

Mark Twain, renomado autor realista e local colorist, é conhecido pelo seu estilo coloquial de escrever. A modalidade oral regional da língua inglesa é representada na fala dos personagens do romance The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Aventuras de Tom Sawyer). Nesta dissertação, é feita uma análise comparativa entre alguns trechos da obra original de Mark Twain, publicada em 1876, e da tradução feita por Monteiro Lobato, em 1934. A partir dos conceitos de regionalidade apresentados por Arendt (2012) e Stüben (2013), o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as especificidades culturais da obra original e verificar de que forma o tradutor, Lobato, as transpõe para o texto da língua-meta, o português brasileiro. Além disso, a partir da análise dos trechos selecionados, são identificadas as técnicas tradutórias utilizadas por Monteiro Lobato, com base nas propostas de Vinay e Dalbernet (1971), Barbosa (1990) e Hurtado Albir (2001). Duas línguas nunca serão suficientemente iguais para serem consideradas representativas de uma mesma realidade cultural, sendo possível analisar se há perdas e ganhos na tradução, como corrobora Bassnett (2005). Nos moldes de Venuti (1995), verifica-se se a tradução é sobretudo domesticadora ou estrangeirizadora. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-27T17:11:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Bondam Soppelsa.pdf: 1404862 bytes, checksum: c9db702a15ee99a35256e0741dba0f7c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-27T17:11:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Bondam Soppelsa.pdf: 1404862 bytes, checksum: c9db702a15ee99a35256e0741dba0f7c (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, FAPERGS. / Mark Twain was a prominent realistic author and local colorist, known by his colloquial style of writing. He represents the regional oral modality of the English language in the speech of the characters in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Aventuras de Tom Sawyer). This master’s thesis aims at comparatively analyzing parts of the original work by Mark Twain, published in 1876, and the translation made by Monteiro Lobato, from 1934. Using the concepts of regionality from Arendt (2012) and Stüben (2013), the objective of this research is to analyze the cultural characteristics of the original novel and verify how the translator, Lobato, transposes the text to the target language, Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, the translational techniques used by Monteiro Lobato are identified, based on the proposals by Vinay and Dalbernet (1971), Barbosa (1990) and Hurtado Albir (2001). Two languages are never enough alike to be considered representative of the same cultural reality, so it is possible to analyze whether there are losses and gains in translation, as confirmed by Bassnett (2005). Following the ideas systematized by Venuti (1995), this work analyzes to what extend the selected translation is a domestication or keeps the cultural elements from the original novel.

O regionalismo tem sido tema de discussões incansáveis, especialmente nas letras gaúchas, que têm um dos regionalismos mais bem definidos da literatura brasileira. Com este trabalho, buscamos entender quando se deu o início desta categoria, no gênero conto, na literatura do estado do Rio Grande do Sul e como avançou pelo século XX. Neste estudo, debruçamo-nos sobre as obras: Tapera, de Alcides Maya (1911), Contos gauchescos, de João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo fora, de Cyro Martins (1934), e Noite de matar um homem, de Sérgio Faraco (1986), por entendermos serem pontos determinantes de uma escalada do regionalismo no conto gaúcho. O escritor com o primeiro trabalho de ficção regionalista, na concepção típica do termo, no gênero de que estamos tratando é Maya; depois dele temos um nome que é referência no conto gaúcho, Lopes Neto; a seguir, com uma pausa de mais de duas décadas, encontramos o ―gaúcho a pé‖, figura criada por Martins e, com uma lacuna bem maior, surge o contemporâneo Faraco, que dedicou uma parte expressiva de sua produção ficcional para o conto regionalista. Nenhum grande valor das letras gaúchas surgiu depois dele até os dias de hoje. A fundamentação teórica amparou-se em Lúcia-Miguel Pereira e seu conceito de "cor local"; em José Clemente Pozzenato, por meio de suas discussões em torno do regional X universal; Antonio Candido, que traz uma tríplice divisão lúcida do regionalismo literário, à luz de teorias em torno da necessidade de acrescer consciência social e amplitude universal a esta categoria; além de Guilhermino Cesar, que nos fornece um importante diferenciador para o regionalismo gaúcho, que é "a gauchesca". Esses teóricos e os autores ficcionais de nosso estudo ajudam a esclarecer os rumos que o regionalismo gaúcho tomou no conto do Rio Grande do Sul no século XX. / Regionalism has been the theme of tireless discussions, especially in Regional Gaucha lyrics, which have one of the most definite regionalisms in the Brazilian Literature. This work searches to understand when this category started, in the short story genre, in the literature of Rio Grande do Sul State and how it headed through the XX century. In this study, we lean over the works: Tapera, by Alcides Maya (1911), Contos Gauchescos, by João Simões Lopes Neto (1912), Campo for a, by Cyro Martins (1934), and Noite de matar um homem, by Sérgio Faraco (1986), as we understand them to be determinant points from a rising to regionalism, in the typical concept of the term, in the genre we are dealing with is Maya; after him there is a name which is reference in the Gaucho short stories, Lopes Neto; and after that, with a halt of more than two decades, we meet the ‗walking gaucho‘, image created by Martins and, with an even bigger gap, appears the contemporaneous Faraco, who dedicated an expressive part of his fictional production to the regionalist short stories.(Continue)0 No other great name, in the gaucho writing, appeared after him, until the present days. The theoretical fundamentation and the support of Lúcia-Miguel Pereira and her concept of "local color"; José Clemente Pozzenato through his discussion around regional x universal. Antonio Candido, who a triple lucid division of the literary regionalism, under the light of the theories which go around the need to add social conscience and universal amplitude to this category; besides Ghilhermino Cesar, who gives us an important differentiating point to the Gaucho Regionalism, which is "the gauchesca". There theoretic and fictional authors of our study help to clear the rumors that the gaucho regionalism took, in the short stories of Rio Grande do Sul, in the XX century.

Mark Twain, renomado autor realista e local colorist, é conhecido pelo seu estilo coloquial de escrever. A modalidade oral regional da língua inglesa é representada na fala dos personagens do romance The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Aventuras de Tom Sawyer). Nesta dissertação, é feita uma análise comparativa entre alguns trechos da obra original de Mark Twain, publicada em 1876, e da tradução feita por Monteiro Lobato, em 1934. A partir dos conceitos de regionalidade apresentados por Arendt (2012) e Stüben (2013), o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as especificidades culturais da obra original e verificar de que forma o tradutor, Lobato, as transpõe para o texto da língua-meta, o português brasileiro. Além disso, a partir da análise dos trechos selecionados, são identificadas as técnicas tradutórias utilizadas por Monteiro Lobato, com base nas propostas de Vinay e Dalbernet (1971), Barbosa (1990) e Hurtado Albir (2001). Duas línguas nunca serão suficientemente iguais para serem consideradas representativas de uma mesma realidade cultural, sendo possível analisar se há perdas e ganhos na tradução, como corrobora Bassnett (2005). Nos moldes de Venuti (1995), verifica-se se a tradução é sobretudo domesticadora ou estrangeirizadora. / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, FAPERGS. / Mark Twain was a prominent realistic author and local colorist, known by his colloquial style of writing. He represents the regional oral modality of the English language in the speech of the characters in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Aventuras de Tom Sawyer). This master’s thesis aims at comparatively analyzing parts of the original work by Mark Twain, published in 1876, and the translation made by Monteiro Lobato, from 1934. Using the concepts of regionality from Arendt (2012) and Stüben (2013), the objective of this research is to analyze the cultural characteristics of the original novel and verify how the translator, Lobato, transposes the text to the target language, Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, the translational techniques used by Monteiro Lobato are identified, based on the proposals by Vinay and Dalbernet (1971), Barbosa (1990) and Hurtado Albir (2001). Two languages are never enough alike to be considered representative of the same cultural reality, so it is possible to analyze whether there are losses and gains in translation, as confirmed by Bassnett (2005). Following the ideas systematized by Venuti (1995), this work analyzes to what extend the selected translation is a domestication or keeps the cultural elements from the original novel.

Dans le contexte actuel de crise énergétique mondial, la consommation d'énergie et l'empreinte carbone, prennent une influence inévitable dés la conception architectonique,premier maillon du processus de construction. Les nouvelles contraintes associées aux accords internationaux tels que, le Sommet de Rio (1992), le protocole de Kyoto (1997) et,spécifiquement en France, le Grenelle Environnement (2007), diversifient le nombre des intervenants dans la conception architecturale, réservée traditionnellement aux architectes.La course pour diviser par deux la consommation énergétique des bâtiments (RT 2012),ainsi que lʼobjectif de diviser par quatre les émissions de gaz à effet serre à l'horizon 2050,mettent en péril la liberté du processus créatif architecturale. Des exigences si fortes dérivent vers des solutions techniques banalisantes et amènent à la standardisation et à la délocalisation des éléments architecturaux. L'objectif de cette recherche est de placer la démarche architectonique de nouveau au centre de la conception durable. Ceci devient possible en validant la performance de la forme de la maison en tant que réponse efficace face à des contraintes environnementales. Pour cela nous nous intéressons à la maison vernaculaire, toujours caractérisée par des formes simples et adaptées à leur contextes socioculturel et géo-climatique. Cet habitat, qui est le résultat d'une optimisation sur du long terme, est forcément durable. L'habitat vernaculaire est analysé ici à la recherche des motivations qui l'ont façonné. Pour cela sont considérés des circonstances géographiques et climatiques qui peuvent déterminer la forme de ces maisons. Nous estimons qu'il est possible d'obtenir de l'information sur l'environnement géoclimatique à partir de l'analyse de déterminants architectoniques visibles, et d'identifier des relations d'influence qui les lient. Ces relations d'influence sont modélisées suivant une approche qui s'appuie sur une représentation qualitative de la connaissance. L'établissement d'un modèle construit à partir de fonctions qualitatives, permet d'effectuer un raisonnement automatique, à partir de la connaissance recueillie sur l'environnement géo-climatique, pour établir les déterminants architectoniques visibles correspondants. Finalement l'outil proposé a une double vocation : permettre d'évaluer la performance de la forme des nouvelles constructions et structurer une démarche de conception d'habitations adaptées à un contexte local. / In the context of the current energy crisis, energy consumption and the carbon trace have become a mayor influence in the architectonic conception, the first link in the construction process. Recent constrains associated with international agreements such as the Rio Summit (1992), the Kyoto Protocole and, specifically in France, Grenelle delʼEnvironnement Round Table (2007), have diversified the number of stakeholders in the architectural conception, traditionally reserved to architects. The race to reduce by hal fenergy consumption in buildings (RT 2012) as well as the goal to cut by four greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (Grenelle de lʼEnvironnement), puts the architectural creative process in jeopardy. Such demanding requirements favor trivial technical solutions and encourage standardization and off shoring of architectural elements.This researchʼs purpose is to place the architectural approach at the center of the sustainable conception. This allows the validation of the performance of a houseʼs shape as an effective response to environmental constrains. For this, we have placed our interest in the vernacular house, usually characterized by simple forms and adapted to their sociocultural and geo-climatic context. This habitat, which has resulted from a long term optimization, is inevitably sustainable. The vernacular habitat is analyzed herein in the search of the motivations that have shaped it. In consequence, geographical and climate circumstances that could have determined the shape of houses have been considered. We claim that from the analysis of visible architectural features it is possible to obtain information on the geo-climatic environment as well as the influence relationships that connect them.These influence relationships are modeled following a qualitative approach supported by a qualitative representation of knowledge. The representation, based upon qualitative functions, enables automatic reasoning, starting from gathered awareness of geo-climatic environment, for establishing corresponding architectural features. Finally, the modeled result both allows the evaluation of the form of new houses and assist the conception of houses adapted to their local context.

In the 90´s, Europe used to be depicted as the most privileged political arena for regional nationalist political parties to access for “more” political power. In that sense, whereas formal channels of regional interest representation were taken for granted by those standing within federal political systems; informal channels of regional interest representation were highly valued by regional nationalists standing in decentralized or devolutionary constitutional settlements. In spite of nuanced institutional preferences, Europe was rationally inspired (Ostrom 2005) as it used to be perceived as an aggregation of formal-legal structures that could be used as a means to prescribe, proscribe and permit a certain behavior in exchange of a personal utility. Moreover, regional nationalists were policy “maximizers” who acted in isolation, away from the center, using their own limited political resources to maximize their policy gains by pursuing distinctive forms of political autonomy. However, by the end of the 90’s, both categories of regional nationalists plunged into European disillusion due to the limits of a sovereign logic prevailing in Europe.<p>However, in the 21st century, as soon as a new European policy cycle started to emerge and the economic crisis started to cripple, experienced regional nationalists realized that they could use the benefits of regional economic resources in face of the European Economic strategy to justify further concessions of policy competences that are still shared, either in theory or in practice, as well as to argue for new ones. The political plan would consist of using the reference of the European Economic targets to deliver policies, which would allow them to legitimize their nationalist aspirations, in both layers of governance, as well as to induce regional citizens into their political plan so they can finally reach the legal threshold to endorse a new state reform. Moreover, since they were rationally bounded, in the sense that they were lacking the policy expertise to perform these goals, they have learned to rely on a policy narrative (Shabahan et al 2011; Jones and Beth 2010; Radaelli 2010) embedded in a territorial economic argument to make sense of an advocacy coalition framework (Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993), using informal channels of regional interest intermediation as “cognitive” structures (Scot 1995a) to articulate a policy strategy to be implemented in Europe and at the regional level of governance. <p>Therefore, and irrespectively of nuanced constitutional settlements, all experienced regional nationalists have returned to the center, using informal channels as an instrument of governance (Salamon 2002) to clarify the best policy options to be implemented in both layers of governance. In other words, regional nationalists have become “policy satisficers” (Simon 1954) who have learned to forgo immediate satisfaction in Europe to collect major gains of political power across multiple layers of governance. If the term “usage” can be defined as the act of using something to achieve certain political goals (Jacquot and Wolf 2003), in this research, we will apply the concept of “usage” to demonstrate that experienced regional nationalists in government have moved from a rational to a cognitive “usage” of the European institutions to perform renewed political preferences across multiple layers of governance. <p>Departing from an actor centered institutionalist approach (Mayntz and Sharp 1997), we will demonstrate that the N-VA in Flanders, since 2004, and the SNP in Scotland, since 2007, have become new pragmatic nationalists. In that sense, we will argue that, in a clear contrast with pragmatic nationalists of the 90’s who expected to legitimize their nationalist aspirations in Europe by the means of a rational “usage” of the European institutions; experienced regional nationalists have become new pragmatic nationalists as they have learned to rely on a cognitive “usage” of the European institutions to legitimize their nationalist aspirations, no longer in Europe, but through Europe. <p>We will then conclude that in the 21st century, and against traditional dogmas of the 90’s, the “usage” of Europe by regional nationalists is cognitively twisted, economically driven and collectively performed. It embraces all experienced regional nationalist political parties in government, irrespectively of their constitutional settlement or nationalist credo, as long as they possess the ability to anchor a political strategy embedded in “identity” without sticking to strict politics of nationalism. <p> / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis investigates the formation of power structures in a revolutionary setting. It takes as a case study the central Siberian city of Krasnoiarsk, in which a powerful Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies emerged during the period March-October 1917. The Krasnoiarsk Soviet was an elective council established during the overthrow of Tsarist authorities. Throughout 1917, it became a vital component of an emerging local and regional power structure, assuming growing responsibility for a number of core state tasks. As well as providing a new empirical case study to English-language literature on 1917, the thesis employs a nuanced analytical approach which challenges existing conceptualisations of state power in revolution and the role played by local soviets. State power in revolutionary Russia has often been viewed as something to be contested between different political groupings and organisations seeking to assert their own outright control. This view is captured neatly by the formulation of “dual power”, in which soviets and Provisional Government organisations constructed alternative power bases in an attempt to wield outright control. Accordingly, the soviets’ growing political strength indicated an ability to marginalise other groups and organisations seeking to wield power. By contrast, this thesis does not seek to explain how power in revolutionary Krasnoiarsk was “captured” or otherwise controlled by the Soviet alone. Instead, it applies a critical interpretation of state power proposed by Bob Jessop and other theorists, who view the state as a site of interaction and negotiation between multiple autonomous organisations and social actors, all of which have a stake in the way it operates in practice. It focuses on the emergence of a “soviet power” writ small, in which the Krasnoiarsk Soviet became an authoritative organisation within a broader constellation of revolutionary actors. Without denying the Soviet’s centrality within this power structure, the thesis does not explain its role simply as the monopolisation of authority over other would-be contenders. Rather, it sees the Soviet’s importance in its ability to establish itself as a focal point for interactions between multiple actors which, collectively, shaped state power at a local and regional level. It considers how the forms and practices of revolutionary power developed through these interactions and how these interactions in turn transformed the roles of actors and organisations engaging them. In order to unpick the complex and dynamic processes of revolutionary power, the thesis employs three core methodological concepts: institutions, mobilisation, and ideology. It makes several important and original arguments. Firstly, it emphasises the autonomy of social actors which supported the Soviet and engaged in its politics, demonstrating the extent to which they were able to shape its political functions and structures according to their own concerns. Secondly, it reveals the importance of skilled administrative personnel to Soviet work, highlighting the invaluable practical roles they played in the regulation of provisions and their ability to influence Soviet policy measures on this issue. Thirdly, it demonstrates the close cooperation between the Soviet and other local governmental and administrative bodies, including the city Duma and provisions regulatory organisations, which remained vital to fulfilling state functions throughout 1917. Finally, it discusses how the Soviet and socialist activists challenged established power relationships between Krasnoiarsk, as a locality, and all-Russian state authorities, revealing the growing importance they attached to securing greater local autonomy in revolution and the changing ways local actors viewed their role in wider all-Russian politics.