South Africa’s current intergovernmental architecture was an important element of the country’s successful post-apartheid transition. A broadly unitary state, South Africa nonetheless adopted some of the framework and language of a federal system. The Constitution […]
Regions and cities play a key financial role in the carbon-neutral transition and the global response to climate change. This is, in large part, due to their jurisdiction over crucial adaptation and mitigation-relevant policy areas […]
In countries around the world, subnational governments and other local public sector entities are responsible for delivering the public services that people rely on day-to-day: schools for their children, public health services, access to clean […]
Social scientists working on decentralization and subnational governance are limited in their work by the paucity of data on subnational institutions and practices around the world. In fact, there are few–if any–data sources that provide […]
Citizen engagement is recognized as a crucial task for socially robust, fit-for-purpose and inclusive policymaking. The Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy aims to respond to the increasing demand from the European Commission, EU institutions […]
What is “land value capture”? How does it work? And why have so many communities across the world applied this financial approach? Land value return is based on a simple core premise: public action should […]
As a global alliance of advocates for inclusive and efficient decentralization and localization, the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) aims to promote inclusive, equitable societies and sustainable global development by elevating the debate on decentralization […]
The Outlook of Fiscal Relations between Levels of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean (Panorama de las relaciones fiscales entre niveles de gobierno en países de América Latina y el Caribe) is a joint […]
As a global alliance of advocates for inclusive and efficient decentralization and localization around the world, the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) aims to promote inclusive, equitable societies and sustainable global development by enhancing the […]
Conventional security discourses did not predict the magnitude and endurance of resistance efforts in Ukraine, considering the asymmetry between Russia and Ukraine in terms of military capacity. Based on our own research on local democracy […]
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