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Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance [PDF]

Government and Opposition, 2020
AbstractAlthough scholarly interest in populism has increased as populist parties have risen across Europe, the subnational level has been largely overlooked. This article adopts an original subnational focus and explores an unlikely but increasingly prevalent political agenda: the combination of technocracy and populism.
Eliška Drápalová, Kai Wegrich
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Outlook of Fiscal Relations among Government Levels in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2023
The Outlook of Fiscal Relations among Levels of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean is a joint publication by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Inter-American Development Bank
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Contextualizing Obesity and Diabetes Policy: Exploring a Nested Statistical and Constructivist Approach at the Cross-National and Subnational Government Level in the United States and Brazil [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy.
Eduardo J. Gómez
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Subnational Governance and Economic and Social Development [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2004
In sum, this theme issue develops the literature on subnational government and governance and economic and social development. Some accepted wisdom has been challenged and qualified, and new insights have been provided. Collectively, the papers point towards a rich future research agenda.
Pike A, Tomaney J
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Examining the implications of classical budget theories in the local government budgeting process: Union Councils in Bangladesh

Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, 2020
Background: In many countries, local governments are neither well equipped nor properly accountable for performing their functions smoothly. They have also failed to become effective strategic partners of the national government and other levels of ...
Mohammad R.I. Talukdar
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Subnational Governance and Conflict

, 2020
The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. It is reflected in the frequent inclusion of subnational governance arrangements in political settlements. The study seeks to analyze the merits and risks of subnational governance as a conflict mitigation mechanism within the framework of political ...
Stefan Wolff, Simona Ross, Asbjorn Wee
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Federal transfers, interregional inequality and redistribution in Latin America

América Latina Hoy, 2014
This work analyzes the impact of federal transfers and subnational expenditure in human development and interregional equity. Data on federal transfers and subnational spending in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, between 1983 and 2011 ...
Lucas GONZÁLEZ
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The financing of subnational governments [PDF]

, 2012
Decentralisation and Reform in Latin America analyses the process of intergovernmental reform in Latin America in the last two decades and presents a number of emerging issues. These include the impacts of decentralization and the response of countries in the region to challenge such as social cohesion, interregional and interpersonal disparities, the ...
Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, Juan Pablo Jiménez   +1 more
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Subnational government banks profitability in Brazil between 2003 and 2019 [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
The role of public banks in the economy has been extensively discussed in the literature. Within this debate, one of the primary criticisms of these financial institutions is their lower profitability compared to private peers. In Brazil, the subnational
DANIEL DINIZ OLIVEIRA, LAURO GONZALEZ, TIAGO COUTO PORTO   +2 more
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Subnational atomization as a factor of increasing corruption in Venezuela

Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales, 2018
This mixed-method research is based on the general proposition that the greater the number of subnational jurisdictions relative to the population and the greater the number of vertical tiers of government, the greater the incentives for corruption.
Antonio Lecuna
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