Call for Papers - LASA 2015 (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Dear colleagues:

We hope that this email finds you well and enjoying your summer. As you know, the deadline for LASA 2015 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) is Monday, September 8, 2014. The current membership of the Section on Subnational Politics and Society entitles us to sponsor one panel that is automatically accepted and included in the conference program. Based in part on the thematic focus of the 2015 LASA International Congress, we propose three potential themes for the panel sponsored by the section.

- Exclusionary politics and collective mobilization
- Inter-governmental politics
- Social policy and policymaking

For our official section panel we will submit the first panel for which we receive five papers. Both of us, however, would be more than happy to shepherd additional panels if there are at least four additional members of the section who express interest in submitting a paper. In the latter case, we would follow LASA’s regular submission procedures. In order for us to submit the online application for the panel, we request that you send to both of us the following information no later than Friday, August 29th:

- First and last name
- Paper title and a 250-word abstract
- LASA Member ID
- Mailing address
- E-mail address
- Institutional affiliation
- If you are a student, please let us know as well

Please remember that participation in the official section panel requires renewal of membership in LASA and in the Section on Subnational Politics and Society before September 8, 2014 (17h00 EDT).

If you have any questions, please let us know. Thanks for your time and we look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,

Lucas González, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Eduardo Moncada, Rutgers University

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