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Innovating in sub-national climate policy: the mandatory emissions reduction scheme in Tokyo
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
This study analyses the drivers behind the policy-making and implementation of the recently developed climate policies in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). In 2010, the TMG introduced a mandatory CO2 emission reduction ...
Subnational Inequality in Latin America: Empirical and Theoretical Implications of Moving beyond Interpersonal Inequality
In many countries around the world, living in one subnational unit versus another can be just as important as race or class as a determinant of differential access to opportunities and wellbeing. Despite this fact, scholars ...
Place-Sensitive Policies in the Provision of Subnational Public Goods in Colombia
What causes stark differences in living standards between subnational units? What can countries do to lessen such variations? This article argues that there is an aspect of national policy frameworks that impacts subnational ...
Uneven Processes and Multiple Pathways
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
This chapter provides a review of the uneven processes and multiple pathways associated with localized illiberal structures and practices in large federal democracies, addresses the comparative and analytical challenges ...
Corruption and Size Decentralization
(2012)
Statistical tests based on newly collected cross-sectional data suggest that countries which have more first-tier subnational governments relative to their population are more corrupt. I measure the strength of association ...
Corruption and Size Decentralization
(2012)
Statistical tests based on newly collected cross-sectional data suggest that countries which have more first-tier subnational governments relative to their population are more corrupt. I measure the strength of association ...
Subnational Poverty Estimates for Latin America
(ECLAC, 2021-12-16)
Subnational poverty maps are used by governments to design, implement and monitor development policies more effectively by targeting them to the places or population groups that need them most urgently. This note describes ...
Setting the Comparative Agenda: Territorially Uneven Democratization Processes in Large Federations
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
This chapter offers a comparative historical analysis of the nature and scope of variations in political rights at the subnational level in the worlds six largest federal democracies--Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the ...
Mixed messages about democratization in the many Mexicos
(Wiley, 2021-11)
The subnational variations within a country as diverse asMexico can be as strong as the variation in democratic quality between different countries. In this article we present Mexico as an exemplary case study and build ...