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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"sub-national"”.
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SUB-NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND MINORITY PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
… of certain far right and regionalist at various sub-national levels in key European Community member states. The thesis employs data provided in a unique data base at the University of Plymouth. This data includes a wealth of information concerning shares of the votes and shares of the seats for …
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The impact on knowledge spillovers on MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations: Evidence from India
… are affected by MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations. A conceptual framework is developed which utilises IB theories to propose how MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations are likely to matter for FDI spillovers. The research propositions are explored quantitatively using …
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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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Green finance under the microscope: analysing South Africa's climate finance tracking capabilities at the sub-national level
… particularly in the context of various international agreements, underscores the growing importance of greater transparency in tracking its allocation and impact. However, challenges persist in accurately assessing the allocation and impact of climate finance, particularly at the local and …
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A multi-region computational general equilibrium model of the United States, used for sub-national tax policy analysis
… States, which I use to examine several issues in sub-national tax incidence. Each of the four regions is an aggregate of several states. Within each region four products are produced; one is interregionally traded, one is not traded, one is provided by the region's government, and the last is …
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EU Sub-national authorities as international actors: Two Nordic cases in the context of the Baltic Sea Region
This thesis assesses the extent to which sub-national authorities from two regions within two unitary states in Europe have become autonomous international actors and attempts to determine whether the European foreign policy arena has been transformed as a result. The empirical examples, which the …
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Exploring the sub-national spatial and economic development impacts of the African growth and opportunity act (agoa) in Lesotho
… has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held “solution” to this challenge has been to provide access of manufactured goods from the SSA-region to the dynamic markets of the affluent North. This perceived wisdom led to the passing of the African Growth …
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Spatio-temporal modelling of breast cancer incidence between 2000 and 2021 at sub-national levels in Iran: Bayesian disease mapping
… cancer incidence are generally monitored at the national level, little is known about sub-national variation in these trends. This project aims to assess levels and trends (2000-2021) of relative risk of breast cancer incidence and mortality at sub-national levels in Iran and their relation to …
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A Comparison of Sub-National Class Decathlon Scores and Event Performances with National and Elite Decathlon Scores and Event Performances.
… The purpose of this study is to compare sub-national class decathlon scores and event performances with national and elite class decathlon performances and scores. The 2002 United States all-time decathlon performances and the 2002 world all-time decathlon performances were separated into …
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Stuck with the bill, but why? : an analysis of the Portuguese public finance system with respect to surface transportation policy and investments
… significant administrative and fiscal power over national and sub-national surface transportation operations and infrastructure. This thesis provides a global view of the state of surface transportation in Portugal through an analysis of both the nation's public finance and transportation finance …
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Geographical and behavioral economics of political risk for foreign direct investment location
… political risk assessments observed at the national level, and the different realities of sub-national city regions whose risk regime is not reflected by the national indicators, and its implication on foreign direct investment (FDI) location decisions. The purpose of this research is to …
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Multi-level elections in Western Europe: determinants of voting and the role of salience.
… original dataset in which data are aggregated to sub-national units; and include examples of national, sub-national, and supra-national elections. A total of 66 elections between 1995 and 2008 are included, drawn from ten Western European countries: Belgium, England, Finland, France, Greece, …
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Three Essays on FDI and Decentralization
… A decentralized country has more FDI when sub-national governments have enough authority on FDI policies and the differences of employment gain among regions are large. Decentralization has positive effects on FDI when fiscal authority and political power is appropriately divided between …
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Political prioritisation for performance-based financing at the county level in Kenya: 2016 to 2019
… in 2015. Kilifi was identified by the Kenyan national government as one of the 20 arid and semi-arid counties (out of 47 counties) mandated to start the implementation of the scheme and potentially inform the development of a nation-wide PBF policy. This study investigates how political and …
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
… the design of the intergovernmental transfer and sub-national borrowing. The study is based on data for twenty-one provinces and the capital city of Mongolia for the period from 2000 to 2009. As a former socialist country Mongolia has had a highly centralized governmental sector. The result of the …
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… dynamics, and others adopting a more refined sub-national approach. Chapter 1 provides an introductory overview to rent seeking in the context of Public Choice Theory. It contextualizes each of the four articles scientifically and highlights their relevance by discussing both (i) the societal …
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Decentralised International Cooperation: Enhancing Conservation and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Natural Resources
The concept of decentralised international cooperation promotes the involvement of sub-national actors, both local communities and local authorities, in the governance of transboundary natural resources and spaces. This concept describes a global legal phenomenon that can be observed in different …
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Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy
… that may both enable and impede HIA use at the sub-national (i.e., provincial, territorial, or state) government level. The three integrated articles of this dissertation provide insights into specific aspects of the policy process as they relate to HIA. Chapter one details a case study of …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
… social capital (Putnam 2000) perspectives on sub-national socio-economic change processes, this thesis argues that the cities' economic divergence can be traced to differences in the social structures in which firms are embedded (Romo and Schwartz 1995). Social embeddedness perspectives reject …
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The analysis of internal migration in the United Kingdom using census and National Health Service Central Register data.
… as an input to the procedure for projecting sub-national populations remains uncertain. This thesis examines the relationship between NHSCR and Census-derived migration data for a common period (1980/81) and illustrates the conceptual and measurement differences and similarities between the …
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