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Mapping global cereal flows at subnational scales uncovers heterogeneities in sourcing dependencies

Environmental Research: Food Systems
Subnational data on both domestic and international cereal flows is essential for understanding food supply chain vulnerabilities, yet no such dataset exists at a global scale.
Shruti Jain
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How SDG localization interacts with existing governance contexts

Global Sustainability
Non-Technical Summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by national governments, rely on local actors for effective implementation.
Ji Xu, Shirin Malekpour, Cameron Allen, Michael Mintrom   +3 more
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International Activities of Subnational Actors and Foreign Policy of the Nation State: Models of Interaction and Interpretations

Сравнительная политика, 2021
The article examines the options for the interaction of paradiplomacy of subnational units – subjects of federations and territorial autonomies – and the national foreign policy of the central governments.
Yu. G. Akimov
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From Municipalist Activism to Institutional Changes: An Analysis of the Subnational Dimension in Mercosur (1995-2019)

Contexto Internacional, 2021
Mercosur has gone through distinct phases, leading to the articulation between a myriad of sectors, groups, and actors, among which subnational governments stand out.
Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira
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A History and Methodology of Research of the Subnational Topic in Political Science

Politologija, 2019
Subnational topic has come a long way from its inception fifty years ago to formation of an independent research direction. This period consists of three phases.
Volodymyr Viktorovych Hnatiuk
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Capacity and quality of maternal and child health services delivery at the subnational primary healthcare level in relation to intermediate health outputs: a cross-sectional study of 12 low-income and middle-income countries

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives To examine the capacity and quality of maternal and child health (MCH) services at the subnational primary healthcare (PHC) level in 12 low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and its association with intermediate health outputs such as
Manuela Villar Uribe, Marwa Ramadan, Sarah Bolongaita, Jose Carlos Gutierrez, Cameron Feil, Oscar Bernal   +5 more
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HarvestStat: a global effort towards open and standardized sub-national agricultural data

Environmental Research Letters
Agricultural production statistics underpin diverse research efforts and development activities. Yet despite their critical importance, efforts to collate, update, and harmonize detailed sub-national agricultural production statistics are frequently ...
Kyle Frankel Davis, Weston Anderson, Steffen Ehrmann, Rafaela Flach, Carsten Meyer, Jonathan Proctor, Deepak Ray, Liangzhi You, Michael Foley, Hervé Kerdiles, Andrew Hultgren, Peter Huybers, Endalkachew Kebede, Michele Meroni, Caro Park, Donghoon Lee   +15 more
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Decoding upgrading in middle-income countries: the political economy of IT industrial policy in two Mexican states

Business and Politics
In an era of fragmented global production and domestic decentralization, middle-income countries confront the complex challenge of industrial upgrading. While national governments remain central to industrial policy design and funding, upgrading unfolds ...
Mariana Rangel-Padilla
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The Fiscal Architecture of Subnational Governments in Federal Nepal

, 2021
The formation of the three tiers of government represents a novel experiment in Nepal’s federal journey since the adoption of the new constitution in 2015.
Devkota, Khim Lal
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Bottoms up: How subnational elections predict parties’ decisions to run in presidential elections in Europe and Latin America

Research & Politics, 2015
Do parties’ experiences in subnational elections predict when parties enter national competition and compete for the presidency? Building upon the party nationalization literature, we argue that a party’s presence in elections across subnational units ...
Jae-Jae Spoon, Karleen Jones West
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