Publius: The Journal of Federalism Advance Access Alert

16 August 2013 to 27 August 2013
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc

Jeffrey F. Timmons and Daniel Broid

The Political Economy of Municipal Transfers: Evidence from Mexico

http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/04/publius.pjt007.abstract

Pablo Simon-Cosano, Santiago Lago-Peñas, and Alberto Vaquero

On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain

http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/26/publius.pjt015.abstract

LASA 2014

Broad themes for the Decentralization and subnational governance section
(given our current membership, the section is entitled to one panel)

1. State capacity in federal systems
2. Social policy at the subnational level
3. Intergovernmental policies and coordination

In order for us to submit the online application for the panel, we request that you send to us, no later than Wednesday, August 28, the following information:

• 250-word proposal statement
• First and last name
• Member ID (all participants in our section’s panels must be members of the section)
• Mailing address
• E-mail address
• Affiliation 
• If you are a student, please let us know as well.

Publius: The Journal of Federalism Advance Access Alert
16 August

How Regions Assemble in Brussels: The Organizational Form of Territorial
Representation in the European Union
Tom Donas and Jan Beyers
Publius published 22 September 2012, 10.1093/publius/pjs042
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/08/16/publius.pjs042.abstract.html?papetoc

Decentralization and subnational governance. Reconceptualizing and measuring decentralization

Sponsored panel

Thursday, 8:30am - 10:15am,

Thurgood Marshall Ballroom S

- Measuring Subnational Autonomy: Revisiting Indices for Decentralization and Recentralization

James Tyler Dickovick, Washington and Lee University

- Decentralization and the Federalist Struggle

Lucas I Gonzalez, CONICET/Universidad Católica Argentina-Universidad Nacional de San Martin

- Mexico’s Local Governments Capacity for Economic Growth: A quantitative model of fiscal autonomy 

Heidi Jane M Smith, Florida International University

Discussants 

Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California 

Laura Flamand, El Colegio de Mexico

Decentralization and Subnational Governance Section

Business Meeting

Please do join us on Thursday, May 30, 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Cleveland 1 

WE WOMEN WARRIORS

(TEJIENDO SABIDURIA)

In Colombia’s war-torn indigenous villages, three brave women from distinct

tribes use nonviolent resistance to defend their peoples’ survival. Trapped in

a protracted conflict that is fueled by the drug trade, indigenous women are

resourcefully leading and creating transformation imbued with hope.

On Thursday May 30, 2013

At 9 AM in Maryland A

Director Nicole Karsin will be there to answer questions

Publius: The Journal of Federalism Advance Access Alert

15 April 2013 to 18 April 2013
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc

Articles

Fractured, Fragmented Federalism: A Study in Fracking Regulatory Policy
Barbara Warner and Jennifer Shapiro
Publius published 18 April 2013, 10.1093/publius/pjt014
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/18/publius.pjt014.abstract.html?papetoc

On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in
Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain
Pablo Simon-Cosano, Santiago Lago-Peñas, and Alberto Vaquero
Publius published 18 April 2013, 10.1093/publius/pjt015
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/18/publius.pjt015.abstract.html?papetoc

Hispanic Population Growth and State Immigration Policy: An Analysis of
Restriction (2008–12)
Timothy Marquez and Scot Schraufnagel
Publius published 5 April 2013, 10.1093/publius/pjt008
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/18/publius.pjt008.abstract.html?papetoc

LASA Section on International Migrations

Dear colleagues,

We are very happy to invite you to be part of the new LASA Section on 

International Migrations. We will have our first Business Meeting in LASA 

Congress in Washington D.C. and we hope to see many of you there.

Our LASA Section on International Migrations promotes networking and
dialogue related to academic work and debates on immigration from, to and
within Latin America and the Caribbean among researchers, professors,
students, and activists. We are already looking into 2014 where we are
planning a pre-conference and, awards for scholarly work among its
members.

Our section’s life and success depends on our members and their ideas,
initiatives and research. For those of you working on the topic of
migration broadly defined, we invite you to register to our International
Migrations Section as you register for the upcoming LASA Conference.

We kindly ask you as well to share these news with your colleagues.

We look forward to hearing back from you with any questions or comments
and hopefully meeting many of you in Washington D.C. for a fruitful
dialogue.

Best regards,

Sara Poggio at poggio@umbc.edu
Maria Amelia Viteri at maviteri@flacso.org.ec
Alice Colon at colonal@coqui.net

LASA 2013 is getting closer! 

There is still time to present in a panel... keep reading 

Our section is formally sponsoring one panel, and has helped to organize another two:

Re-conceptualizing and measuring decentralization (sponsored panel)
Thu, May 30 - 8:30am - 10:15am

Public policy design and implementation in multilevel systems
Thu, May 30 - 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Consequences of electoral strategies and coalitions in federal countries

Thu, May 30 - 5:00pm - 6:45pm

We still have a few spots available, due to cancellations. Please contact the section officers Laura Flamand (laura.flamand at gmail.com) or Lorena Moscovich (lorenamoscovich at gmail.com) by Monday, March 18th at the latest if you are interested in joining any of the panels.

We will consider the submitted papers under a "first come, first served" rule. Recall that LASA policy indicates that you can only present one paper at the conference, and that you should renew your membership by March 29th.

Decentralization and Sub-national Governance Section, Business meeting

LASA 2013

Please mark your calendars for Thu, May 30 - 7:00pm - 8:45pm

LASA Mellon Seminar Fund

We are glad to announce that a research project co-organized by Lorena Moscovich (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Richard Snyder (Brown University) has been awarded the LASA Mellon seminar fund. 

Moscovich, co chair of the section, and Snyder coordinate the research initiative “Federalism and Inequality in the Global South”. Their goal is to bring together senior and promising young social scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, India, Nigeria and South Africa to present papers exploring the relationship between political institutions, especially federalism, and socioeconomic inequality. Other members of the section such as Laura Flamand, co-chair, Gabriel Cepaluni, Mariana Prats and Natalia Del Coglinano are also involved in the project.

The LASA/Mellon fund is thus sponsoring an international conference at Brown University and the publication of a book drawing on a cross-country set of the papers presented at the conference. The conference will be held at the Watson Institute at Brown University on May 22 and 23, 2013. Participants will also present their research at the 2013 LASA Congress in Washington, D.C, in a special panel sponsored by LASA-Mellon.

APPLY NOW: EURAC Federal Scholar in Residence Programme 2014

The EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism now accepts applications for becoming EURAC’s Federal Scholar 2014!

To be considered eligible, applicants must hand in an unpublished manuscript in either English, Italian, German, French or Spanish by 1st July 2013. 
More info below or at www.eurac.edu/federalscholar

Publius: The Journal of Federalism 

Advance Access Alert 

20 February 2013 to 13 March 2013

http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc