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