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Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox Open
The 2018 regional elections in Andalucía marked the end of Spain’s exceptional status as a country with a party system free from the radical right. The electoral success of the radical right-wing challenger, Vox, who gained 11% of the vote…
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Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors Open
Kenya's March 2013 elections ushered in a popular system of devolved government that represented the country's biggest political transformation since independence. Yet within months there were public calls for a referendum to significantly…
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Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’ Open
Through their ambitious devolution programme, the Conservatives show a new assertiveness in relation to restructuring the local state, in contrast to the laissez-faire approach of the previous Coalition government. Although the Coalition p…
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Devolution and corruption in Kenya: Everyone's turn to eat? Open
How does decentralization affect patronage and rent seeking? While centralization is seen as enabling these practices, many expect decentralization to reduce them. With few examples of meaningful reform it is difficult to establish if this…
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Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? Open
This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly impo…
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Urban governance in India Open
The pace and growth of urbanization in India poses enormous challenges to urban governance. This article examines the institutional features and devolution mechanisms of the federal framework within which cities have to deliver better qual…
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Territory, power and statecraft: understanding English devolution Open
In recent decades, the devolution of power to subnational regional authorities has formed a key element of what has been termed the ‘unravelling’ or ‘unbundling’ of the state in many parts of the world. Even in the United Kingdom, with its…
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Social Forestry - why and for whom? A comparison of policies in Vietnam and Indonesia Open
Community forestry or social forestry (henceforth referred collectively as SF) programs have become new modes of forest management empowering local managers and hence, allowing integration of diverse local practices and support of local li…
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Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya Open
Increasing the autonomy of county hospitals in Kenya will improve their functioning. County governments should develop legislation that give hospitals greater control over resources and key management functions.
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Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix Open
Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s rested on reforms aimed at ‘getting the institutions right’, sometimes by creating regulatory agencies that would be above the fray of partisan politics…
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Professionalism and competing responsibilities: moderating competitive performativity in school autonomy reform Open
Discourses promoting the benefits of school autonomy have floated freely internationally since moves in the 1980s to greater devolution in the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Australia and Sweden. The most recent Australian version, Independent …
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Health system governance following devolution: comparing experiences of decentralisation in Kenya and Indonesia Open
Introduction Devolution reforms in Indonesia and Kenya have brought extensive changes to governance structures and mechanisms for financing and delivering healthcare. Community health approaches can contribute towards attaining many of dev…
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Comparing community forestry actors in Cameroon, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal and Germany Open
Current research on community forestry worldwide is starting to question whether community forestry programmes can fulfil their goals towards the empowerment of the local forest user. Apparently, the driving forces behind the programmes ar…
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Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution Open
Introduction. Chapter 1. Britain and Europe: The Poisoned Chalice. Chapter 2. Europe and the Sovereignty of Parliament. Chapter 3. Europe and the Referendum. Chapter 4. Europe and The Collective Responsibility of Ministers. Chapter 5. Euro…
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Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork Open
Australian public school teachers work some of the longest weekly hours among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, particularly in the state of New South Wales where average hours are officially in, or near, th…
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Debating Scotland Open
The Scottish referendum of 2014 represented a rare event in advanced industrial democracies. It posed a simple question about whether Scotland should be independent, but this choice hid a spectrum of possibilities and public opinion tended…
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Mythic Manchester: Devo Manc, the Northern Powerhouse and rebalancing the English economy Open
This article examines the prominent role of Manchester in recent devolution debates. The so-called “Manchester Model” for city-regional governance has been based on developing a tradition of close collaboration amongst neighbouring local a…
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Limits of Devolution: Localism, Economics and Post‐democracy Open
This article challenges the narrowly founded but untroubled consensus about the alleged benefits of the Conservative government's devolution programme. It suggests that too much attention has been paid to purported benefits and too little …
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Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom Open
Acknowledgements Thanks to the referees of this article and to the European Commission Horizon 2020 project Integrating Diversity in the European Union, 822304. Funding This work was supported by European Commission: [Grant Number 822304]
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Responding to climate change around England's coast - The scale of the transformational challenge Open
Around the world coastal communities face an unprecedented challenge in responding to sea level rise and associated changes. For many responding through incremental adaptation may be appropriate (although not without limits). This may incl…
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Health systems changes after decentralisation: progress, challenges and dynamics in Pakistan Open
Decentralisation is widely practised but its scrutiny tends to focus on structural and authority changes or outcomes. Politics and process of devolution implementation needs to be better understood to evaluate how national governments use …
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Devolution and the New Politics of Development in Kenya Open
Joel Barkan had a special interest in decentralization and local development. He was persuaded that decentralization, and devolution in particular, had the potential of addressing Kenya’s longstanding challenges in regard to equity, ethnic…
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Priority setting for health in the context of devolution in Kenya: implications for health equity and community-based primary care Open
Devolution changes the locus of power within a country from central to sub-national levels. In 2013, Kenya devolved health and other services from central government to 47 new sub-national governments (known as counties). This transition s…
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Devolution and health in the UK: policy and its lessons since 1998 Open
Comparisons of organization and performance at levels more detailed than whole systems; analysis of the resilience and management of different systems in a context of budgetary austerity; analysis of the politics behind policy decisions.
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The Evolution and Devolution of 360° Feedback Open
In the 25+ years that the practice of 360° Feedback has been formally labeled and implemented, it has undergone many changes. Some of these have been positive (evolution) in advancing theory, research, and practice, and others less so (dev…
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Re-stating the post-political: Depoliticization, social inequalities, and city-region growth Open
This paper argues that city-region building debates and relatedly “post-political” literatures are missing critical perspectives on the state, particularly the state’s continued existence as a social relation and an arena for politics, its…
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Deregulation, Devolution, and State Preemption Laws’ Impact on US Mortality Trends Open
"Deregulation, Devolution, and State Preemption Laws’ Impact on US Mortality Trends." , 107(11), pp. 1749–1750
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Migration-related city networks: a global overview Open
In recent years, one observes a surge in the number of city networks formed to address the welcoming and integration of immigrant populations. Drawing on a database of over sixty networks, the paper provides a global overview of their diff…
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The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao Open
This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four ca…
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Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi Open
In the wake of widespread interethnic “clashes” and al-Shabaab terrorist attacks in Kenya over the last few years, the state has embarked on the devolution of capacities for ensuring security and peace to the local level. The state gave th…