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International Journal of the Commons, 2015 Although REDD+ was conceived as a national approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, many of the early advances have been at the subnational level.
Ashwin Ravikumar +4 more
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How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size? [PDF]
Beyond conducting the usual regression analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralization and aggregate government size (national and subnational combined), this paper makes the first attempt to examine how different fiscal decentralization ...
Jing Jin, Heng-fu Zou
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Subnational constitutionalism: defining subnational constitutions and self-constituent capacity
, 2021 : This chapter defines subnational/state constitutions as basic documents for given subnational entities which lay down entrenched basic rules on subnational identity, representative structures, organization of powers, fundamental rights and/or policy ...
Patricia Popelier +5 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka +3 more
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Subnational Government: The French Experience [PDF]
West European Politics, 2008 By John Loughlin Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, ix + 239 pp., £55, ISBN 0-333-80440-6 (hbk) It is a well-known fact that majority state nationalism of the type inaugurated in France after t...
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Subnational Debt Finance and the Global Financial Crisis [PDF]
This note focuses on the impact of the global financial crisis on subnational debt financing. We approach the following questions: Why is subnational debt financing important? What are the impacts of the crisis on the fiscal balance and financing cost of
Liu, Lili, Canuto, Otaviano
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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz +7 more
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The judicialization of territorial politics in Brazil, Colombia and Spain [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2013 This article explains how judicial review influences intergovernmental political dynamics in Brazil, Colombia and Spain. The argument is developed in light of two questions: how supreme courts have established themselves as pivotal institutions for ...
Helder Ferreira do Vale
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Subnational Bailouts in Germany [PDF]
This paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In the first part we briefly describe the system of fiscal federalism in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states.
Helmut Seitz
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
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