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Handbook on Subnational Governments and Governance
This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political, financial, administrative, and managerial dimensions of subnational governments. It examines the profound differences between forms of subnational governance across the world, as well as the common challenges faced by governments below the national level.
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This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political, financial, administrative, and managerial dimensions of subnational governments. It examines the profound differences between forms of subnational governance across the world, as well as the common challenges faced by governments below the national level.
Chapters provide detailed case studies of more than twenty subnational governments, analysing how different degrees and forms of self-rule have impacted the well-being of local populations. Alongside studying specific regional responsibilities and governance arrangements, contributors also address four central aspects of subnational governments across the world - innovation, intergovernmental tensions, fiscal issues, and delivery arrangements. They examine important issues including incomplete decentralisation, challenges to governmental autonomy, and lack of citizen support. Ultimately, the Handbook highlights the growing importance of subnational governments in designing, adopting and implementing policy, and providing key services to their communities.
Providing a nuanced understanding of diverse forms of subnational government, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of governance, public management and administration, political science, and intergovernmental relations. It will also be essential reading for policy-makers and practitioners seeking to understand subnational governance as practised today.
Chapters provide detailed case studies of more than twenty subnational governments, analysing how different degrees and forms of self-rule have impacted the well-being of local populations. Alongside studying specific regional responsibilities and governance arrangements, contributors also address four central aspects of subnational governments across the world - innovation, intergovernmental tensions, fiscal issues, and delivery arrangements. They examine important issues including incomplete decentralisation, challenges to governmental autonomy, and lack of citizen support. Ultimately, the Handbook highlights the growing importance of subnational governments in designing, adopting and implementing policy, and providing key services to their communities.
Providing a nuanced understanding of diverse forms of subnational government, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of governance, public management and administration, political science, and intergovernmental relations. It will also be essential reading for policy-makers and practitioners seeking to understand subnational governance as practised today.
Critical Acclaim
‘For too long, scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners have overlooked subnational governments’ crucial role in investing in citizens and infrastructure, responding to popular demands, and building legitimacy and political stability from the ground up. This Handbook is a timely and much-needed antidote. It casts a net that is both deep and wide, exploring issues as diverse as incomplete decentralization, political tensions, intergovernmental relations, and challenges to fiscal, political and administrative autonomy. And it spans a huge geography, with 22 empirical chapters that cover both developing and developed countries across Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. A must-read for both students and practitioners of governance.’
– Jean-Paul Faguet, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
‘This new Handbook provides state-of-the-art analysis of subnational governance. A first-rate interdisciplinary team achieves truly global coverage, and this provides rare comparative insight in how democratic backsliding, fiscal pressures, rural-urban tensions, or minority nationalism shape subnational governance in the 21st century.’
– Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US and European University Institute, Italy
– Jean-Paul Faguet, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
‘This new Handbook provides state-of-the-art analysis of subnational governance. A first-rate interdisciplinary team achieves truly global coverage, and this provides rare comparative insight in how democratic backsliding, fiscal pressures, rural-urban tensions, or minority nationalism shape subnational governance in the 21st century.’
– Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US and European University Institute, Italy
Contributors
Contributors include: Milagros Carmen Álvarez Verdugo, David B. Audretsch, Claudia N. Avellaneda, Germà Bel, Ricardo A Bello-Gomez, César Colino, Daniel Cravacuore, Eloísa del Pino, Kent Eaton, Peter Eckersley, Marylis Fantoni, Marriz M. Garciano, Taha Hameduddin, Jianzi He, Yijia Jing, Aidan Klein, Aileen V. Lapitan, Jongmin (Min) Lee, Santiago Leyva, José M. Magone, Jorge Martínez-Vázquez, Egon Montecinos, Jami Nelson-Nuñez, Juan Cruz Olmeda, Dennis Penu, Ringa Raudla, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Eduardo Sanz-Arcega, Renat Shaykhutdinov, Regina Smyth, Cristina Maria Stănică, Viorel I. Stănică, Alissandra T. Stoyan, Kohei Suzuki, Paweł Swianiewicz, José Manuel Tránchez-Martín, Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén, Salih Yasun, Julio C. Zambrano-Gutiérrez
