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The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments

2017
Abstract Subnational governments are increasingly involved in foreign policy and foreign relations in activities usually labeled as paradiplomacy or constituent diplomacy. This phenomenon is due to the rising capacity of substate territories to act in world politics and has been aided by advances in transportation and ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Poland: Europeanization of Subnational Governments

open access: yes, 2011
Abstract The traditions of Polish democracy date back to the First Republic. However, eventually Poland suffered collapse due to the relative weakness of the Polish central authorities. Furthermore, the partition of Poland among Russia, Prussia, and Austrian Habsburg Empire in the nineteenth century created a challenge for the ...
Paweł Swianiewicz
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Punctuated equilibrium and subnational governments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Punctuated equilibrium is an increasingly popular theory for explaining budgetary outcomes. To date, studies that rely on punctuated equilibrium frameworks have universally uncovered evidence of government inefficiencies in budgeting. This suggests that the limitations - both cognitive and institutional - that contribute to budget punctuations may be ...
Epp, Derek
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Subnational governments in transnational networks for sustainable development

open access: yesInternational Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2010
ENCORE, Governance, Identity politics, nrg4SD, Sustainable development, Transnational networks of subnational governments,
Sander Happaerts
exaly   +2 more sources

Borrowing by Subnational Governments

IMF Policy Discussion Papers, 1996
This paper presents various models of control with advantages and disadvantages, the balance of which would make it more or less suitable to a particular country's circumstances. As these circumstances evolve—as fiscal and macro imbalances improve or worsen—the preferable model may change over time.
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Subnational Governance and Development

2016
This chapter examines how the practice of governance, especially at a subnational level, has been evolving since the 1990s, focusing on the implications for “community governance”. An overview of recent thinking on the nature of governance opens up the question of whether “governance” may be exercised through institutions entirely separate from ...
Jenny Hodgson   +2 more
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