Article
Political Science
Sanford C. Gordon, Dimitri Landa
Summary: This study develops a two-level governance model to explore the impact of federal institutions on national political conflict, challenging the traditional view that federalism minimizes conflict. It shows that polarization over national policy may be higher in federal systems compared to unitary systems, even with constant policy demand. The incentives for engagement in costly conflict depend on the current national policy and may be higher under federalism than unitary governance.
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
(2021)
Article
Economics
Jasper N. Meya, Paul Neetzow
Summary: Research shows that there are different incentives for state governments to support renewable energy deployment when federal government implements feed-in tariff and auction systems. In the case of Germany, the recent shift from feed-in tariff to auctions has increased incentives for state governments in the demand-intensive south to support renewable energy, while decreasing them in the wind-abundant north.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Justina C. Ray, Jaime Grimm, Andrea Olive
Summary: Canada is facing negative biodiversity trends despite its rich ecological and economic wealth. The current national biodiversity strategy lacks integrated approaches and unified decision-making mechanisms. Transformative changes are needed to address the challenges of decentralized authority, economic emphasis on resource extraction, and conflicts of interest in biodiversity conservation.
Article
International Relations
Allard Duursma, Henning Tamm
Summary: Research reveals that the frequency and duration of conflicts between African states have been misunderstood, as they often engage in confrontations through mutual intervention in each other's intrastate conflicts. This phenomenon, common in Africa but also present in other regions, has been largely overlooked by conflict scholars. The study provides a systematic survey of these mutual interventions on the African continent.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Tracy-Lynn Field
Summary: The traditional concern of federalism literature has focused on the allocation of powers in federalist systems, aiming to achieve unity and diversity. This article explores 'functional federalism' in South Africa and the complex interactions within the electricity sector, highlighting the ongoing relevance of the South African case in the field of federalism.
TRANSNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Sarah Ann Wheeler, Katherine Owens, Alec Zuo
Summary: Coordinated and effective water governance across different levels of government remains a challenge in transboundary and other water resource areas. A study conducted in Australia found that less than four in ten participants support the proposal for a Federal takeover of water resources, with the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia showing slight majority support.
Article
Public Administration
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
Summary: Trust in government in the United States has been decreasing across federal, state, and local levels. Public administrators face challenges due to low levels of public trust and recent calls to regain that trust. A study found that public service motivation (PSM) is positively associated with trust at the state and local levels, but not at the federal level.
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Economics
Jeffrey Clemens, Philip Hoxie, John Kearns, Stan Veuger
Summary: This study examines the impact of federal aid on population testing and vaccine administration for COVID-19 using an instrumental-variables estimator. The findings suggest that federal fiscal assistance had a modest effect on the pace of vaccine rollouts, improved the equitability of vaccine administration, and had a substantial impact on the volume of tests administered. The difference in findings for testing and vaccination indicates that surplus funds were more effective at increasing demand for services with relatively elastic demand and significant public health externalities.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
George Atisa, Aziza Zemrani, Mathew Weiss
Summary: This study examines the use of decentralization as a tool for sustainable economic development in governance levels across Africa. Findings suggest that current decentralization lacks the triple-bottom line of sustainability and fails to meet current needs without compromising the needs of future generations. Therefore, it is crucial to integrate decentralization with sustainability to minimize the short-term and long-term impacts of human actions on the local environment.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Political Science
Oliver Meza
Summary: This study applies the theory of punctuated equilibrium to explore changes in local government policy agendas, finding that decentralized resources from state and federal governments can impact municipal policy agendas. These effects are dependent on the overall institutional setting, offering further insights into how institutional friction shapes feedback and policy changes.
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Political Science
Mohammad Bashir Mobasher, Mohammad Qadam Shah
Summary: This study highlights the politicization and misunderstanding of concepts related to federalism in public discourse in Afghanistan. The survey results show that the association of ethnic groups with different systems of governance is misleading. A majority of ethnic groups in Afghanistan have a nuanced approach, favoring central authorities on some issues, local authorities on others, and shared or divided authorities on the rest.
PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM
(2022)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Menelisi Falayi, James Gambiza, Michael Schoon
Summary: Southern Africa is facing governance challenges in natural resource management, particularly in maintaining system integrity and achieving socially equitable governance. The most reported governance challenges include lack of coordination, accountability, capacity, skills, and resources, while challenges related to adaptability and flexibility of institutions, such as learning, monitoring capacity, and innovation, are less studied. Critical gaps in engagement with governance-related frameworks, specifically polycentricity, adaptive governance, and social-ecological stewardship, are highlighted in the review.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jess L. Delves, V. Ralph Clark, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Nigel P. Barker, Joerg Szarzynski, Stefano Tondini, Joao de Deus Vidal, Andrea Membretti
Summary: The Maloti-Drakensberg mountain system in southern Africa is the largest and highest-elevation mountain system, providing ecosystem services that are increasingly threatened by rapid socioecological change. The study reveals that continued land degradation and economic problems indicate ineffective development policies and important information gaps.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Cesar Casiano Flores
Summary: Wastewater treatment faces challenges worldwide, including in Mexico and Latin America. Governance failures have been identified as the main cause of these challenges. Current governance approaches have not been effective, and there is a lack of contextual research on wastewater treatment policy in Mexico. It is important to conduct interdisciplinary research and utilize contextual frameworks to analyze the role of subnational governments in improving wastewater treatment in Mexico and other countries with similar governance structures and challenges.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER
(2023)
Article
Geography
Charles Conteh
Summary: The paper investigates the institutional resilience and adaptability of industrialized mid-sized city-regions nested within multitiered federal systems. The empirical focus is an in-depth comparative case study of two city-regions in Canada and the United States to explore the mechanics of institutional adaptation in the face of economic changes over the past few decades. It shifts the analytical focus from explaining stability to accounting for change, and sheds a greater light on the complex multitiered institutional infrastructure of city-regions within federal systems.
TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE
(2021)
Review
Management
Nasra Ahmed Mohamed, Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali
Summary: This study aims to further understand entrepreneurship education through a systematic literature review of published articles from selected databases between 2009 and 2019. The findings suggest that entrepreneurship education programs have received increasing attention in recent years, and researchers have focused on the influence of entrepreneurship education on individuals' entrepreneurial intention, behavior, and attitude.
WORLD JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Communication
Ismail Sheikh Yusuf Ahmed Dhaha, Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali
JURNAL KOMUNIKASI-MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
(2014)