Handbook on Subnational Governments and Governance

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Contents
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Introduction to the Handbook on Subnational Governments and Governance
Part I Dimensions of subnational governance
1. Fiscal aspects of subnational governments
2. Innovation in sub-national governments
3. Subnational political tensions
4. Provision and production of public services by local governments
Part II Subnational governance in Latin America
5. The role of subnational governments in international relations: paradiplomacy in Brazil
6. Decentralization in Bolivia: popular support for regional autonomy
7. Unbalanced multilevel governance in Colombia: fiscal federalism and political bargaining with weak administrative decentralization
8. The link between politics and interacting administrative capacity: the case of citizen participation in Ecuador
9. Subnational governance in Mexico: the unending persistence of dependency
10. A slow-moving crisis: the challenges of local democratic governance in Peru
11. Intergovernmental relations and decentralization in Chile: the inertia of centralism and functionalism
Part III Subnational governance in Asia
12. Subnational government and governance in China
13. Subnational governance in India: pseudo-federalism and unity in tension
14. Japan’s local governments and governance under population decline
15. Korean regional inequality in subnational grant distribution toward nonprofits
16. Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and local resource generation in Philippine provinces
17. Religion and subnational public policy: accommodation of minority religious practices in the post-communist Muslim republics
Part IV Subnational governance in Africa
18. The future of regional governance in Ghana
19. The municipal finances and challenges of municipal taxation in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Part V Subnational governance in Europe
20. Subnational governments and governance in Estonia: a paradoxical path of re-centralization despite strong local autonomy
21. Balancing cooperative federalism with local autonomy: subnational governments and governance in Germany
22. Poland: rolling back of the decentralized system?
23. Rural-urban connectivity through multi-level governance: a review of subnational governments in Romania
24. Portugal: the resistance against European Union multilevel governance
25. Russian federalism, blame defection, and regime stability
26. Subnational governance in Spain
27. Conclusion: worldwide challenges for subnational governance
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