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Intergovernmental relations in Nigeria: improving service delivery in core sectors [PDF]
According to the Nigerian constitution, main public sector responsibilities are split across various government levels. Thus, no sole government could deliver radical improvements in service delivery on its own, which means that coordination and ...
Freinkman, Lev
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Understanding Malaysian State Governments Fiscal Behavior: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers [PDF]
As of late, several state governments in Malaysia have been identified as having serious difficulty in meeting their financial needs, to the extent of the government being qualified as on the verge of bankruptcy.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah +1 more
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Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for “left behind” areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of ...
Benjamin Helms, Junghyun Lim
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Improvement of methodological approaches to the budget regulation at the state and local levels [PDF]
Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2011 The article is dedicated to the economic essence of the budget regulation and to its main forms. The authors of the article analyzed the existing forms and proposed methodological approach to the management of intergovernmental transfers based on the ...
O.V. Prokopenko, V.Yu. Shkola
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On the politicization of intergovernmental fiscal relations in Germany after unification [PDF]
A recent decision of the German Constitutional Court requires political decision makers to revise the system of intergovernmental transfers in order to limit free bargaining among state and federal government officials.
Friedrich Schneider +3 more
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Conference‐Based Method: Interviewing Elites at Intergovernmental Conferences
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Conferences have increasingly featured within geographical research as sites of knowledge production, performance and contestation. However, this article explores how intergovernmental conferences can be productive sites for geographical fieldwork through elite interviews on research topics such as climate geopolitics and disaster risk ...
Liam Saddington, Katie Peters
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2017 Intergovernmental relations in Spain have been characterized by mistrust and a lack of collaboration among political actors. In this context of intergovernmental controversy, this article presents a case of success related to several good practices ...
María Ángeles Abellán López +1 more
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Externalities and Bailouts: Hard and Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations [PDF]
Central government matching grants can, in principle, induce socially- efficient provision of local public goods that produce spillover benefits. Local underprovision of public goods may however elicit direct central-government provision and finance (a ``
David E. Wildasin
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