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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Subnational"”.
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
… the fact that decentralization has enabled subnational actors to re-claim national ""state developmentalist"" roles through policy innovations at the state and local levels---giving rise to a new phenomenon I term subnational developmentalism. While situated within a common national context, …
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State-Centered Federalism: Subnational Autonomy and Job Training Policy
… contexts to reflect the significant role of subnational actors throughout U.S. history and current domestic policy. Subnational governments influence federal legislation and make decisions that substantially refine, shape, and redirect public policies. As job training policy makes clear, …
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Public expenditure smoothing at the subnational level: evidence from Argentina
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Modeling NatureServe subnational conservation status ranks for Tennessee vascular plants
… for species at the global, national, and subnational levels, taking into account rarity, threats, and population trends. This study used the NatureServe system to generate provisionary subnational conservation status ranks (s-ranks) for the vascular flora of Tennessee using five methods: …
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Assessment of subnational level birth registration data in South Africa
Birth registration data forms part of vital statistics. It is the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire an identity and a nationality as stipulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF 1989). The assessment of birth registration is important to …
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Deriving traditional reproductive regimes to explain subnational fertility differentials in Zambia
This thesis applies multivariate statistical techniques to six data sets to account for past and present-day features underlying ethnic fertility differentials in Zambia.
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Local debts, international authority : rating agencies' emergence in regulating subnational debt
This thesis explores the growth of subnational debt ("SND") and the different regulatory responses to this debt. It focuses on the recent emergence of credit rating agencies (e.g. Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch) as an alternative regulatory mechanism, which has the potential to stabilize …
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Explaining Subnational Variation in Voter Coordination and Party Entry in Electoral Competition
… in a comparative perspective, specifically subnational variation in strategic party entry and strategic voter coordination. The dissertation studies how within-country variation both in the demographic composition of electoral districts and also in the supply-side composition of ballots can …
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Decentralization, Democracy and Development : Examining the potential and limits of subnational empowerment
… In this context, it is increasingly argued that subnational democracy is important in revitalizing and reinvigorating democratic systems, as well as promoting better public governance. This thesis attempts to examine the concepts of Decentralization and the Democratic Developmental State, the …
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The subnational politics of structured adjustment in Argentina : the case of San Luis
… political and economic effects. Although subnational responses to structural adjustment varied, successful provincial performers were the exception rather than the rule. San Luis, an intermediate development province traditionally dependent on national revenue transfers appeared to be one …
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Subnational Estimation of Period Child Mortality in a Low and Middle Income Countries Context
… a growing desire for more and better methods for subnational estimation of child mortality. Improved methods for subnational estimation of U5MR can allow for a better understanding of the geographic differences of trends in U5MR and more targeted intervention for child mortality reduction. Though …
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Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legislatures
… legislatures but also to the knowledge of subnational legislative success in federal countries. I expect my research to show that changes in the partisan environment within local legislatures shapes the selection and use of gatekeeping prerogatives by majority parties e.g. distribution of …
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Does decentralization work? An assessment of the causes and consequences of subnational fragmentation in Brazil
… to smaller political units, some experienced subnational fragmentation - a process in which some local communities split into multiple new communities. A fledgling literature assesses both the causes and the effects of subnational fragmentation in the developing world and provides insight into …
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Banks and the state in Germany : the critical role of subnational institutions in economic governance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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The End of Civilizations: The Role of Religion in the Evolution of Subnational Conflict, 1946-2007
… </p> <p>In the mid-1990s the number of ongoing subnational conflicts appeared to be trending upward and increasingly between dissimilar people groups; Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations thesis posited that future conflict at the subnational and international levels would be increasingly …
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Disease, Development, and Disorder: Examining the Effect of Health on Subnational Development and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
… development, and global health research, subnational analyses are conducted and exogenous instruments are used to address issues of simultaneity and reverse causality. As conflict takes many forms outside of civil war, this study focuses on smaller-scale social conflicts including riots, …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… I study, measure, and explain patterns of subnational democracy worldwide and in developing and post-conflict countries with emphasis on the critical case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This dissertation extends previous research on post-conflict democratization by 1) re-focusing the unit of …
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Pskov region of the Russian Federation as foreign policy actor
ABSTRACT Subnational foreign activities are a new and relatively unexplored aspect of the international system. The absence of clear and universal rules creates an ambiguous political playground that can be misused by both states and their subnational governmental units for reaching their foreign …
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