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- Title
Comparing and Measuring Subnational Autonomy across Three Continents.
- Authors
FERREIRA DO VALE, HÉLDER
- Abstract
The literature on comparative local government has been primarily focused on measurement of local governments while it has fallen short in theorizing on diverse structures, dynamics, and functioning of local governments throughout the world. This article posits that large data sets measuring local government indicators help to accumulate knowledge but fail to identify and explain the main dynamics behind local governments activities and processes. Attempting to increase comparability of local government across different regions, this article builds on qualitative indicators of decentralization in three sub-regions--South America, South Asia and Southern Africa--and assesses the evolution of subnational autonomy in the most decentralized countries in these sub-regions; namely, Brazil, India and South Africa.
- Subjects
SUBNATIONAL governments; LOCAL government; ECONOMIC structure; ECONOMIC indicators; DECENTRALIZATION in government
- Publication
Lex Localis: Journal of Local Self-Government, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 3, p741
- ISSN
1581-5374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4335/13.3.741-764(2015)