Negotiating Universalism in India and Latin America: Fiscal Decentralization, Subnational Politics and Social Outcomes [Paperback]

Introduction: Negotiating universalism in India and Latin America: Fiscal decentralization, subnational politics and social outcomes

1. Rethinking measures of democracy and welfare state universalism: Lessons from subnational research

2. Federal transfers, inequality, and redistribution: Contrasting theories and empirical evidence for five Latin American cases

3. The centralization vs decentralization tug of war and the emerging narrative of fiscal federalism for social policy in India

4. Who benefits? Intergovernmental transfers, subnational politics and local spending in Ecuador

5. Extractive industries and regional development: Lessons from Peru on the limitations of revenue devolution to producing regions

6. Public policy provision from a subnational perspective: Context, institutions and spatial inequality

This book explores how vertical inter-governmental political and fiscal bargains and horizontal variation in political, social and economic conditions across regions contribute to or undermine the provision of inclusive and sustainable social policies at the subnational level.

This book explores how vertical inter-governmental political and fiscal bargains and horizontal variation in political, social and economic conditions across regions contribute to or undermine the provision of inclusive and sustainable social policies at the subnational lelC1