Social Policy Dilemmas Under Decentralization and Federalism
Author : Lawrence S. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence S. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Author : Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1487521545
Looking at Canada, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Switzerland, Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care examines the overall organization of the health system.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1421405687
Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.
Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691234175
"As James Madison led America's effort to write its Constitution, he made two great inventions-the separation of powers and federalism. The first is more famous, but the second was most essential because, without federalism, there could have been no United States of America. Federalism has always been about setting the balance of power between the federal government and the states-and that's revolved around deciding just how much inequality the country was prepared to accept in exchange for making piece among often-warring states. Through the course of its history, the country has moved through a series of phases, some of which put more power into the hands of the federal government, and some rested more power in the states. Sometimes this rebalancing led to armed conflict. The Civil War, of course, almost split the nation permanently apart. And sometimes it led to political battles. By the end of the 1960s, however, the country seemed to have settled into a quiet agreement that inequality was a prime national concern, that the federal government had the responsibility for addressing it through its own policies, and that the states would serve as administrative agents of that policy. But as that agreement seemed set, federalism drifted from national debate, just as the states began using their administrative role to push in very different directions. The result has been a rising tide of inequality, with the great invention that helped create the nation increasingly driving it apart"--
Author : Gilles Paquet
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0776607456
Debating federalism in Canada.
Author : Jan Erk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351718819
The 1990s were marked by democratic reforms throughout Africa, which went in tandem with decentralization reforms. The chapters of the volume all highlight the gradual changes that have taken place since. Long-term structural uncodified factors – be it societal, economic, geographic, demographic – seem to have interacted with the constitutional clauses introduced during the reforms. Some chapters look at how decentralization slowly gave way to recentralization because none of the new subnational entities were politically and economically strong enough to balance off the center; some look at how inherent deficiencies in infrastructure and personnel at the subnational level brought the central government back in; some look at how different subnational units ended up working differently due to differences in demographic and social factors; some look at how uncodified factors came to determine how national politics functioned; some look at how decentralization created new conflicts between ethnic groups competing for the control of the new entities; some look at how decentralization blew new life into traditional authorities. This book was original published as a special issue of Regional and Federal Studies.
Author : Gordon Crawford
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9053569340
'Decentralisation in Afrika' is een sobere beoordeling van wat decentralisatie precies kan bereiken. Decentralisatie van overheden in Afrikaanse landen en elders in de derde wereld krijgt de laatste tijd een impuls, vaak gedreven door Multilaterale en bilaterale instanties (de 'donoren'). Maar worden de voordelen hiervan wel gerealiseerd? In dit boek worden vraagtekens gezet bij de kwestie of decentralisatie wel een gunstige uitweg biedt voor de armoede en het conflict in Afrika.
Author : Remy Prud'homme
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN :
Demand for decentralization is strong in most parts of the world. This close look at the negative side effects of improperly appled decentralization is not an attack on decentralization but an effort to prevent its misapplication -- and to promote fuller understanding and wiser use of this potentially desirable policy.
Author : Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1553395395
Until the 1990s social policy played an integrative role in Canada, providing a counter-narrative to claims that federalism and diversity undermine the potential of social policy. Today, however, the Canadian model is under strain, reflecting changes in both the welfare state and the immigration-citizenship-multiculturalism regime. Federalism and the Welfare State in a Multicultural World illustrates that there are clear trends that, if unchecked, may exacerbate rather than overcome important social cleavages. The editors argue that we are at a crucial moment to re-evaluate the role of social policy in a federal state and a multicultural society, and if federalism and diversity challenge traditional models of the nation-building function of social policy, they also open up new pathways for social policy to overcome social divisions. Complacency about, or naive celebration of, the Canadian model is unwarranted, but it is premature to conclude that the model is irredeemably broken, or that all the developments are centrifugal rather than centripetal. Social policy is integral to mitigating divisions of class, region, language, race, and ethnicity, and its underlying values of solidarity and risk-sharing also make it a critical mechanism for nation-building. Whether social policy actually accomplishes these goals is variable and contested. The essays in this volume provide some timely answers.
Author : Guillermo O’Donnell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1986-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801831928
An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in Southern Europe and Latin America. The authors provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual countries, a comparative overview, and a synthesis conclusions offer important insights for political scientists, students, and all concerned with the prospects for democracy. In Volume 3, despite the unique contexts of transitions in individual countries, significant points of comparison emerge — such as the influence of foreign nations and the role of agents outside the government. These analyses explore both intra- and interregional similarities and differences.