Abstract Despite increasing research into populist parties in power, their impact on subnational institutions has been neglected. Taking a novel multilevel perspective, this article inquires the policy consequences of radical right (specifically, FPÖ and Lega) local government, effect simultaneous participation national government. The shows expansion exclusionary that follows concurrent presen...

Sometimes it is difficult to find a rationale for episodes of bailouts in which the political motivations federal government are not clear cut. In other cases, soft-budget constraint subnational governments (SNGs) seems be based on unlimited resources. This paper aims shed some light both issues taking as reference workhorse model developed by Goodspeed. The principal change its basic assumptio...

The rising cases of violence against children (VAC) have prompted strategies, laws, and policies to protect Ugandan at the grassroots, subnational, national levels. Despite emergence various strategies by different VAC actors who network formally informally address VAC, functionality their networks has not received adequate attention in previous research. We conducted a qualitative study examin...

The paper explores the effect of intergovernmental transfers on own revenues subnational governments in Nigeria. This study employs instrumental variables (IV) model to establish impact annual variation governments. reveals that states depend mainly from federal government run their operations; and second-level administrative units, Nigeria crowd out revenues. A 1 percent rise leads about 0.65 ...

We propose a diffusion process to describe the global dynamic evolution of credit operations at a national level given observed operations at a subnational level in a sovereign country. Empirical analysis with a unique dataset from Brazilian federate constituents supports the conclusions. Despite the heterogeneity observed in credit operations at a subnational level, the aggregated dynamics at ...

BACKGROUND The revised World Health Organization's International Health Regulations (2005) request a timely and all-hazard approach towards surveillance, especially at the subnational level. We discuss three questions of syndromic surveillance application in the European context for assessing public health emergencies of international concern: (i) can syndromic surveillance support countries, e...

So long as we do not ensure that expenditure of money upon local objects conforms with the needs and wishes of the locality, invest it with adequate power and assign to it appropriate finances, we will never be able to evoke local interest and excite local initiative. s mentioned in Chapter 7, each government level (central, provincial, municipal, etc.) should have its own budget, enacted accor...

In federally organized countries the allocation of renewable energy (RE) deployment is regulated by national and subnational governments. We analyze efficiency this federal co-regulation when different types policy instruments – price quantity are applied at government levels. Using an analytical model with two levels, we show that efficient crucially depends on burden sharing subsidy costs amo...