Books : Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA (ND Kellogg Inst Int'l Studies)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.8098
EAN num: 9780268044114
ISBN number: 0268044112
Label: University of Notre Dame Press
Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 376
Printing Date: March 01, 2008
Publishing house: University of Notre Dame Press
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Governance in the Americas, a multidisciplinary volume, 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. Originating in a major research project conducted by teams in each of the three countries, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of how representative and participatory democracy is being constructed at state and local levels in the recently emerged democracies of Brazil and Mexico, and is being recast and sustained in the United States.
The contributors evaluate the performance of subnational governments, as these societies become more genuinely decentralized, and as new actors and managerial routines create and implement public policy. The authors challenge the criticism of 'exceptionalism' in the United States, seeking instead to understand the points of convergence and divergence among the three countries as each seeks to improve the effectiveness and public accountability of its policy-making processes.
Collaborators include Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi, and Allison M. Rowland.
'This book is ambitious in scope, synthesizing political patterns in three of the hemisphere's largest countries and most complex economies, discussing a multitude of subnational actors and institutions in each of these countries, and covering broad stretches of time in each country.' --Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa Cruz
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