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2018
The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs. Indeed, subnational hydropolitics are an important feature of several large countries, including the United ...
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The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs. Indeed, subnational hydropolitics are an important feature of several large countries, including the United ...
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2018
Darjeeling’s famed tea plantations are staffed almost exclusively by an Indian Nepali (or Gorkha) labour force, whose ability to advance beyond field labour has been severely limited. In 2008, retired Gorkha plantation managers founded the Darjeeling Tea Management Training Centre (DTMTC).
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Darjeeling’s famed tea plantations are staffed almost exclusively by an Indian Nepali (or Gorkha) labour force, whose ability to advance beyond field labour has been severely limited. In 2008, retired Gorkha plantation managers founded the Darjeeling Tea Management Training Centre (DTMTC).
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Abstract Subnational constitutionalism relates to the constitutional autonomy of government units below the level of the nation-state. Although East/Southeast Asia has only one formal federal system (Malaysia), it has seen extensive decentralization in almost every state over the last few decades.
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2016
Most states worldwide possess two or three levels of government, from national to provincial and localities. Subnational governing arrangements are emerging in response to widespread decentralization, globalization, and urbanization, with this level increasingly considered the ideal spatial scale for effectively harnessing governing capacity.
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Most states worldwide possess two or three levels of government, from national to provincial and localities. Subnational governing arrangements are emerging in response to widespread decentralization, globalization, and urbanization, with this level increasingly considered the ideal spatial scale for effectively harnessing governing capacity.
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Subnational nominations and elections
2022Abstract “Subnational Nominations and Elections” examines how candidates are selected to run for office below the level of the presidency and how they run in general election campaigns. The importance of single-member districts, the ways in which electoral districts are drawn, the financing of elections, and the ways that campaigns are ...
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2014
Local or subnational EBED projects exemplify how programs and projects are organized to meet EBED goals by regional, state, or local governments; nonprofits; entrepreneurs; and communities. Local approaches are important because they can be initiated at a lower overall cost than national approaches, and they can be shaped to meet the specific needs of ...
Sanya Carley, Sara Lawrence
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Local or subnational EBED projects exemplify how programs and projects are organized to meet EBED goals by regional, state, or local governments; nonprofits; entrepreneurs; and communities. Local approaches are important because they can be initiated at a lower overall cost than national approaches, and they can be shaped to meet the specific needs of ...
Sanya Carley, Sara Lawrence
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Designing Subnational Institutions
Comparative Political Studies, 2004This article conceptualizes decentralization as a change in the institutional rules that divide political authority and governing capacity between levels of government. By emphasizing the institutional dimension, the author argues that different approaches to the study of institutions, namely, rational and historical institutionalism, can generate ...
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The Subnational Hierarchy in Time
2016Links China’s two-millennium experiences in searching for optimal institutional designs for effective local control with that of the People’s Republic, suggests that the Communist regime is by no means so much different from its imperial predecessors and probably fares no better on average.
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