Academic research Archives – Decentralization Net

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 […]

Webinar: Local governance indicators – what is the global state of knowledge?

September 19, 2022 LPSAManager

As part of its global webinar series on Elevating the Decentralization Debate, which seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners on issues related to decentralization, multilevel governance, and localized development, the Local Public Sector Alliance—in […]

USAID: Academic research and donor programming on decentralization

November 16, 2020 LPS Alliance

Beginning in the 1990s there was a wave of enthusiasm for the idea that decentralization would promote both democratic governance and economic efficiency. Throughout the 2000s, that optimism increasingly ran up against a second generation […]