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Governance in the Americas : decentralization, democracy, and subnational government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / Robert H. Wilson ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah ... [et al.].

Title
Governance in the Americas : decentralization, democracy, and subnational government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / Robert H. Wilson ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah ... [et al.].
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Farah, Marta Ferreira Santos.
  • Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
  • Wilson, Robert Hines.
Description
xiii, 337 p.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Decentralization in government > Brazil
  • Decentralization in government > Mexico
  • Decentralization in government > United States
  • Federal government > Brazil
  • Federal government > Mexico
  • Federal government > United States
Note
  • "Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"--P. [ii].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-323) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780268044114 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0268044112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008000408