Both advocates and critics of decentralization assume that decentralization invariably increases the power of subnational governments. In postdevelopmental latin america, the surprising answer to this question is no. The politics of decentralization in argentina, colombia, and mexico tulia g. Decentralization has been argued to bring benefits ranging from economic efficiency to improved public services to more participatory. In this short segment tulia falleti university of pennsylvania explores how decentralisation differs from other types of state reform, drawing. Tulia falleti, university of pennsylvania, political science department, faculty member. Pdf on jul 1, 2011, helder ferreira do vale and others published tulia g. In this short segment tulia falleti university of pennsylvania explores how decentralisation differs from other types of state reform, drawing particularly on examples from latin america. However, a closer examination of the consequences of decentralization across countries reveals that the magnitude of such change can range from substantial to insignificant.
Northwestern university, 2003 is assistant professor of political. Falletis original sequential theory of decentralization persuasively explains the variation in the substance and effects of decentralization in latin americas largest. In this short segment tulia falleti university of pennsylvania gives us an overview of the past 30 years of decentralisation processes in latin america. Fiscal decentralization refers to the set of policies designed to increase the. Falleti draws on extensive fieldwork, indepth interviews, archival records, and quantitative data to explain the trajectories of decentralization processes and their markedly different outcomes in argentina, brazil, colombia, and mexico. Northwestern university, 2003 is assistant professor of political science at the university of pennsylvania. Falleti this dissertation brings to light the puzzle of decentralization reforms that do. In this article, i propose a sequential theory of decentralization that has three main. Decentralization and subnational politics in latin america. Cambridge core latin american studies decentralization and subnational politics in latin america by tulia g.
Falletidecentralization and subnational politics in latin. Decentralisation is a state reform tulia falleti youtube. Sociology, university of buenos aires, argentina, 1994 is the class of 1965 endowed term professor of political science, director of the latin american and latino studies program, and senior fellow of the leonard davis institute for health economics at the university of pennsylvania. In fact, a variety of outcomes are possible, depending largely on who initiates the reforms, how they are initiated, and in what order they are introduced. Fishpond thailand, decentralization and subnational politics in latin america by tulia g university of pennsylvania falletibuy. Escobarlemmon and others published decentralization and subnational politics in latin america, by tulia g.
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