Decentralization and Social Forces panel, LASA 2012

The DSNG section is pleased to sponsor the following panel at LASA 2012. Please see below for information on papers, location, and time.

Decentralization and Social Forces: 
Consequences and Responses
Saturday 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm, Golden Gate Ballroom Salon B

Chairs: J. Tyler Dickovick, Washington and Lee University, Julián Durazo Herrmann, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Discussant: Laura Macdonald, Carleton University

This panel will examine the interaction between (de)centralized governance – including participatory budgeting and deconcentrated anti-poverty programs – and a range of social responses at the local level.  Three of the papers examine the impacts of public policy and its effects on poverty, well-being, and electoral politics, while two others look at specific local responses to the question of central authority.  Together, the papers give a wide-ranging yet deeply researched view of the consequences of (de)centralized governance and the responses to it from individual citizens, social movements, and civic organizations.

1. The impact of social policies of the federal government in the Brazilian elections of 2010

Maria Teresa Miceli Kerbauy, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) – Araraquara

2. Improving Social Well-Being Through New Democratic Institutions

Michael Touchton, Boise State University

Brian Wampler, Boise State University

3. Rediseños de la soberanía provincial y minería trasnacional en Argentina: el caso de Chubut (2003-2011)

Daniel Torunczyk Schein, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)