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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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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 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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Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 The recent creation of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), an organization of local authorities of universal scope, is the culmination of the emerging process of a new political actor on the international scene. The article describes and analyses
Mónica Salomón, Javier Sánchez
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017 Background: No credit rating methodology currently exists for any of South Africa’s sub nationals. Aim: To develop a generic, quantitative credit rating methodology for the Department of Health and the Department of Education combined, as well as ...
Erika Fourie +2 more
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Fiscal autonomy of subnational governments and equity in healthcare resource allocation: Evidence from China. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Yang C +9 more
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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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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 The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
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