LPS Alliance, Author at Decentralization Net

The future of decentralization and multilevel governance in a rapidly changing context

November 3, 2025 LPS Alliance

The seismic shift that is underway in the global development funding landscape should be a wake-up call to leaders in the Global North and South alike. As support from the international community is waning or […]

Horizontal intergovernmental coordination at local and regional levels

October 24, 2025 LPS Alliance

A newly released volume, Horizontal Intergovernmental Coordination at Local and Regional Levels: Evidence from Europe and Beyond, addresses a critical yet underexplored dimension of multilevel governance: the mechanisms and conditions that enable horizontal coordination among […]

Decentralized Governance and Climate Change

October 7, 2025 LPS Alliance

A new book sheds light on one of today’s most pressing global challenges: Decentralized Governance and Climate Change, edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Paul Smoke, and Serdar Yilmaz, examines the intersection between decentralization and climate policy, […]

Territorial income differences and dynamics within Latin American countries

October 7, 2025 LPS Alliance

For decades, Latin America has been characterized by deep territorial disparities in income and productivity. Stark divides between leading metropolitan regions and lagging rural areas have shaped economic opportunity, social cohesion, and politics. A recent […]

Do local gender quotas improve the electability of women at higher tiers?

September 23, 2025 LPS Alliance

One of the central promises of decentralization is that it can create political space for those historically excluded from power. In theory, local governance is the arena where marginalized voices—whether of caste, ethnicity, or gender—can […]

From decentralization to recentralization in Turkey

September 22, 2025 LPS Alliance

When the Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept into power in 2002, it promised to loosen the rigid centralism that had long defined the Turkish state. In its first years, the party advanced decentralizing […]

Subnational governments, a key link for territorial development in Iberia and Latin America

September 12, 2025 LPS Alliance

“Subnational governments, a key link for territorial development.” This was a central theme of the Fourteenth Ibero-American Conference on Local Finance, held on September 3 and 4 in Asunción, Paraguay. The conference was supported by […]

Effective multilevel governance and citizen engagement: billions of (dollar) reasons to care

August 18, 2025 LPS Alliance

With global development institutions in retreat, it is becoming more and more obvious that the public sector is unambiguously the primary enabler of ‘global’ development—capable of propelling development forward by embracing inclusive and effective multilevel […]

Federalism, regionalism, and territorial governance

August 15, 2025 LPS Alliance

The study of regionalism, federalism, and territorial governance has historically been dominated by research on Europe and North America. While these regions have provided valuable insights into multi-level governance, they represent only a fraction of […]

LPSA Advisory Board & Community Meeting – August 2025

July 30, 2025 LPS Alliance

The LPSA Advisory Board invites all LPSA Advisory Board members, LPSA Working Group Co-Chairs and members, as well as all interested policy practitioners, government officials, researchers and scholars, civil society stakeholders and other members of […]