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Synergising Climate and Clean Air Governance in the EU: A Multilevel Analysis of Policy Integration
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unlocking synergies while avoiding trade‐offs between climate and air pollution mitigation is key to policy effectiveness and cost‐efficiency. For maximum effect, these policies must be integrated not only horizontally within a governance level but also vertically across them.
Niklas Löther
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Fiscal responsibility laws for subnational discipline : the Latin American experience [PDF]
This paper discusses fiscal responsibility laws in Latin America, with special attention to their provisions for fiscal discipline by subnational governments. It discusses why and when such laws might be useful-to help resolve the coordination problem in
Webb, Steven B.
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As governments intensify efforts to achieve net zero goals, they increasingly rely on forms of indirect governance to mobilise societal actors and facilitate climate action. Governance literature focuses on orchestration by organisations and governments that engage intermediaries to pursue shared governance goals.
Alexander Nordt, Karin Bäckstrand
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"Subnational Borrowing in Japan : from 'Implicit Guarantee' to Market Discipline and Fiscal Rule" [PDF]
In many countries, local borrowing is an important source for long-term development projects such as roads, bridges, and waterworks. Local borrowing for such projects is justified on the ground that benefit of these projects often last decades and the ...
Nobuki Mochida
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how natural climate solutions (NCS) are institutionalised through carbon market governance in tropical contexts, focusing on Brazil's emerging Emissions Trading System (SBCE). It contributes to debates on the effectiveness, equity and governance of nature‐based climate action by analysing how carbon market instruments ...
Fátima de Souza Freire +1 more
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Competitiveness of subnational governments and their relationship with COVID-19 mortality in Peru
Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, 2022 Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed high disparities in the world population. Objective: To describe the correlation between competitiveness and mortality from COVID-19 in Peru, with subnational governments as an element of study. Material
Jose Santiago Almeida-Galindo +7 more
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Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America [PDF]
This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchanan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential ...
Ernesto Stein
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global leadership in phasing out fossil fuels is an important new frontier in climate governance, yet remains undertheorised within existing scholarly accounts of climate leadership. In this paper, we argue that ‘phaseout leadership’—climate leadership centred on curtailing fossil fuel supply—is a distinct kind of leadership that dominant ...
Freddie Daley +2 more
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Canadian Federalism in Design and Practice: The Mechanics of a Permanently Provisional Constitution
Perspectives on Federalism, 2017 This paper examines the interaction between constitutional design and practice through a case study of Canadian federalism. Focusing on the federal architecture of the Canadian Constitution, the paper examines how subnational units in Canada actually ...
Gardner James A.
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Fiscal Rules for Subnational Governments. Some organizing principles and Latin American experiences [PDF]
In this paper we investigate the logic and the workings of fiscal rules, with focus on rules for subnational governments. We argue against a simplistic view that sees the writing of numerical limits on fiscal variables as the solution to fundamental ...
Miguel Braun, Mariano Tommasi
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