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Present-day Luxembourg is a small-scale unitary state. Historically, Luxembourg has been part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the newly formed Belgian State and the German Zollverein. It has always made an effort to sustain political and economic ties in all directions, also since gaining its independence in the nineteenth century. Collaboration within the Benelux Customs Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the European Union (EU) and the Eurozone fits its institutional outlook resonating with the consensual Rhinelandic state tradition. Central government, well connected in various directions, is the overriding actor in the dual polity of Luxembourg. As a small-scale state, Luxembourg has neither provinces, nor departments or counties. With 102 municipalities (in 2019), local government in Luxembourg is comparatively fragmented. With institutional continuity as an overriding characteristic, large constitutional changes are not to be found in the books.
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As general sources of empirical data, the following works have been used, most notably the papers by Hendriks referred to below. General references are used in this section, as almost each of the following works touches on each of the paragraphs presented above.
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Hendriks, F., Goossens, J. (2021). Luxembourg. In: Martí-Henneberg, J. (eds) European Regions, 1870 – 2020. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61537-6_5
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