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

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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