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Regional and Federal Studies

Did subnational governments’ educational responses to the pandemic significantly vary? Evidence from Canada

Anne Lachance examines whether subnational governments adopted significantly different education policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on four Canadian provinces: New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, and Alberta.
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Regional and Federal Studies

Do regions cooperate during crises? Analysing regional behaviour during the pandemic in Italy

Gaia Matilde Ripamonti explores the behaviour of regions in informal intergovernmental relations within the Italian decentralised system. In particular, her research focuses on the case of Italian regions during the pandemic, a crisis that required a tight cooperation between different levels of governance. She finds that, while regional behaviour in horizontal relations changed according to the interest at stake, regions were always conflictual towards the central government.
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Regional and Federal Studies

What objectives shape the fiscal policy choices of regional governments?

Carmen Marín González and Diego Martinez Lopez argue that the standard fiscal policy trade-off between stabilisation and debt sustainability fails to explain the behaviour of subnational governments, whose dominant responsibility is delivering welfare services.

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Regional and Federal Studies

Potential and limits for a ‘democratization from below’ in Venezuela

Recent events in Venezuela have resulted in renewed interest in regime change in that country. Discussions about Venezuelan democratization typically rest on the assumption that regime transition can only result if initiated from the centre, paying less attention to the possibility that democratic pressures might emanate from the country’s federal units.

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