Decentralization and subnational politics in Asia

Decentralization and Subnational Politics: Investigating the Impact of Democratic Decentralization on Subnational Politics in Pakistan

“…This decentralization has sparked a great deal of scholarly interest and has produced enormous literature that examines the nature, impact, and role of decentralization in different places (Sorens, 2009;Vlahos, 2020;Moreno, 2002;Palermo & Wilson, 2014;Hlepas, et al, 2018); Baicker et al, 2012;Basta, 2018;Lecours, 2019;Smoke et al, 2006;Crook & Manor, 1998;Erk, 2014;Fombad, 2018). However, little attention has been paid to examining how decentralization contributes to subnational politics in multilevel settings (Falleti, 2010;Rodríguez, 2021;Shair-Rosenfield, 2021). Decentralization has significantly changed the role of governments and the nature of politics by increasing subnational revenues and expenditures, transferring major public services such as education, health, housing, transportation, and poverty alleviation programs to subnational governments, and reforming relations between different levels of government and subnational regions (Falleti, 2010, p. 1-2).…”