Tag: Governments

Free Download Claudia N. Avellaneda, "Handbook on Subnational Governments and Governance "
English | ISBN: 1803925361 | 2024 | 436 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political, financial, administrative and managerial dimensions of subnational governments. It examines the profound differences between forms of subnational governance across the world, as well as the common challenges faced by governments below the national level.

Free Download Brian Warby, "Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance: How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor "
English | ISBN: 1498517528 | 2015 | 178 pages | EPUB | 1219 KB
This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as and law order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness. The conditions that promote poverty alleviation are not entirely the same as those upon which major microfinance investors base their funding decisions. The result is that much microfinance funding is going to the wrong places. This means that not only is microfinance not helping the poor, but under the wrong conditions it actually exacerbates poverty. The author arrives at these conclusions through a mixed methods approach, using both statistical analysis and case studies.

Free Download Edited by Alfredo Saad-Filho, "Neoliberalism or Developmentalism The PT Governments in the Eye of the Storm "
English | ISBN: 9004471928 | 2021 | 468 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the administrations led by the Workers’ Party, under Presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff (2003-16). The essays examine the economic, political, and social aspects of these governments.

Free Download Why Governments Get It Wrong by Dennis C. Grube
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1529083311 | 158 pages | PDF | 1.06 Mb
We live in an era when we really need governments to get it right – from the Covid-19 pandemic response to how they tackle climate change. Our lives depend on it. Yet, to many, they can seem clueless, and their decisions leave us confused. Why?

Free Download James J. Gosling, "Budgetary Politics in American Governments"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138923427, 1138923435 | EPUB | pages: 260 | 1.3 mb
This comprehensive book describes and analyzes the substance and politics of public budgeting at the national, state, and local levels of government. In doing so, it takes a comparative approach, illustrating the distinctiveness of budgeting at each level, as well as highlighting the features common to all three. A unifying focus is the extent to which budgetary decision makers use the budget as a central vehicle to advance their policy preferences. This fully updated sixth edition provides an extensive and thorough analysis of the causes of the Great Recession, its economic consequences, and the policy responses which pushed the boundaries of conventional monetary and fiscal policy. Also new to this edition is a chapter on the intergovernmental dimensions of public budgeting, along with boxed features highlighting hands-on vignettes of contemporary practical challenges facing budget makers at the different levels of government.

Free Download Minority Governments in India: The Puzzle of Elusive Majorities By Csaba Nikolenyi
2009 | 175 Pages | ISBN: 0415778263 | PDF | 2 MB
India’s national parliamentary elections typically result in the election of majority parliaments and the formation of a single-party majority government. However, India’s national party system has changed beyond recognition since the parliamentary elections of 1989. The Congress Party has lost its dominant party status; the number of political parties that contest elections, win seats in parliament and gain cabinet portfolios have increased; minority governments and cabinet instability have become regular features of parliamentary politics.This book addresses each of these aspects of party system transformation in India by applying the analytical techniques of rational and social choice theory. Challenging conventional wisdom, the book argues that the number of parties in India has increased as a result of the unexpected consequences of the constitutional amendment of 1985 that was conceived to curtail party defections. Although the Congress Party no longer dominates the new multi-party system, it still retains a pivotal role in deciding which coalitions may form viable and stable minority government. The Indian case study is theoretically driven and it is readily comparable with other parliamentary federations where minority governments are often formed, such as Canada, and the book finds that these processes are also present in the sub-national party systems of the states, however, with greater variation.