Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development

• #1. Decentralization and Subnational Governance: Theory and Praxis
• #2. Place-Based Subnational Development: Unpacking Some of the Key Conceptual Strands and Normative Dispositions
• #3. The Institutional Imperatives of Local Economic Governance: Lessons from a Small Island Developing State
• #4. Integration, Innovation, and Intimidation?: Linking the Third Sector and Local Government in Ireland
• #5. The Subnational Region: A Utopia? The Challenge of Governing Through Soft Power
• #6. A Comparison of Resource Equalization Processes for Subnational Rural Governance and Development: Case Studies of England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
• #7. Subnational Finance in Australia and China: The Case for Municipal Bond Banks
• #8. Fiscal Responsibility and Multi-Level Governance: Bridging the Gap between Policy and Management
• #9. Public Financial Management and Systems of Accountability in Sub-National Governance in Developing Economies
• #10. Fiscal Decentralization: Constraints to Revenue-Raising by Local Government in Zimbabwe
• #11. Political-Administrative Interface at the Local Sphere of Government with Particular Reference to South Africa
• #12. Politics-Administration Relations and the Effect on Local Governance and Development: The Case of Bangladesh
• #13. Co-Creation as a Social Innovation in Delivery of Public Services at Local Government Level: The Slovak Experience
• #14. Operation Sukuma-Sakhe: A New Social Contract for Decentralized Service Delivery and Responsive Governance in KwaZulu-Natal
• #15. Infrastructure Governance at Sub-National Level: The Case of Kampala City in Uganda
• #16. Challenges in Institutionalizing Democratic Governance via Popularly Elected Mayor: The Case of Jamaica
• #17. Local Representation in Australia: Preliminary Findings of a National Survey
• #18. Women's Political Empowerment: Lessons for Subnational Levels of Government – Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Indonesia
• #19. Subnational Governance and Development: A New Perspective
• #20. Developing Democratic Paradigms to Effectively Manage Business, Government, and Civil Society: The African Spring
• #21. Collaborative Governance and the Implementation of Fiscal Responsibility Frameworks
• #22. Subnational Governance Model from the Integration of Online Media and Social Networks: The Case of Medellin City, Colombia
• #23. Not Forgetting the Public Servants: Capacity-Building to Support Subnational Governance and Development Implementation
• #24. Local Government Reform in Jamaica: A New Paradigm for Participatory Local Governance

Eris D. Schoburgh is Associate Dean in the Faculty of the Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government, at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus where she teaches courses in public and policy management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She currently coordinates the Public and Policy Management Unit. Her general area of academic specialisation is public policy analysis and management with special focus on comparative subnational government/governance; subnational/local (economic) development. Current research interests are comparative public administration/policy/management, comparative local governance and local economic development, organisational change and development and public (policy) sector reform. She has twenty-two (22) publications among which are two books and several journal articles that have appeared in leading international and regional journals.

Roberta Ryan is a leading social researcher and policy, program evaluation and stakeholder engagement practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors. With a strong interest in the relationship between people and places she has worked in and with local government in areas of community services, strategic planning, land use planning, sustainability, organisational change and development and citizen engagement. Roberta is the Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Governance (UTS:IPPG) and the UTS Centre for Local Government (UTS:CLG) at the University of Technology Sydney.