Subnational political tensions

Kent Eaton

Chapter 3 in Handbook on Subnational Governments and Governance, 2024, pp 28-41 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides a broad survey of subnational political tensions, defined as friction between national and subnational governments along the vertical axis of governance. It examines three key drivers that help explain why so many otherwise different countries have similarly come to experience much more acute subnational political tensions: decentralization, democratization, and liberalization. Thanks to these important global trends, elected politicians at the intermediate and local levels of government now have far greater incentives to pursue their own policy preferences in ways that do not always align with those of the center, as well as the enhanced authority and resources to pursue these divergent preferences. Having explained why we are seeing greater intergovernmental conflict and contention in so many countries around the world, the chapter also examines the variety of coalitions - both horizontal and vertical - whose formation can powerfully shape the evolution and potential resolution of subnational political tensions.

Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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