Governance in the Americas : decentralization, democracy, and subnational government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA /

Offers important new insights about decentralization, federalism, and democratic change in the three largest federal nations in the Americas: Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

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Corporate Author: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Other Authors: Wilson, Robert Hines, Farah, Marta Ferreira Santos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2008
Series:Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Decentralization and the subnational state / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson
  • Two centuries of federalism in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / Lawrence S. Graham and Allison M. Rowland
  • The changing institutional capacity of subnational government: toward effective co-governance / Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter K. Spink, and Peter M. Ward
  • Intergovernmental relations and the subnational state: the decentralization of public policy making / Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Pedro Jacobi, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson
  • Government and citizens: the changing nature of civil society / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson
  • The past, present, and future of subnational governments and federalism / Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • About the authors and collaborators
  • Index.