Governance in the Americas
Subtitle: decentralization, democracy, and subnational government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA
By: Robert H. Wilson ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah ... [et al.].
Contributors: Wilson, Robert Hines.; Farah, Marta Ferreira Santos.; Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780268044114
Subjects: Decentralization in government -- Brazil; Federal government -- Brazil; Decentralization in government -- Mexico; Federal government -- Mexico; Decentralization in government -- United States; Federal government -- United States
Notes: "Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Decentralization and the subnational state / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson; title: Two centuries of federalism in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / Lawrence S. Graham and Allison M. Rowland; title: The changing institutional capacity of subnational government: toward effective co-governance / Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter K. Spink, and Peter M. Ward; title: Intergovernmental relations and the subnational state: the decentralization of public policy making / Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Pedro Jacobi, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson; title: Government and citizens: the changing nature of civil society / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. Rodríguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson; title: The past, present, and future of subnational governments and federalism / Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: About the authors and collaborators; title: Index.