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100			_aEaton, Kent
245			_aDesigning subnational institutions: regional and municipal reforms in postauthoritarian Chile
260			_c2004
300			_ap.218-44.
362			_aMar
520			_aThis article conceptualizes decentralization as a change in the institutional rules that divide political authority and governing capacity between levels of government. By emphasizing the institutional and historical institutionalism, can generate analytical leverage on the contemporary trend of decentralization. In the Chilean case, rationalist perspectives illuminate the country's continued status as one of Latin America's most centralized politics. Comparatively weak subnational institutions directly reflect the strategic design considerations of national politicians. However, concepts central to historical institutionalism, including critical junctures and unanticipated consequences, explain how and why decentralization gained stream in the postauthoritarian period. Specifically, Child's shift to more decentralised institutions is the legacy of Pinochet-era reforms of subnational government, sequencing patterns that developed governing capacity before political authority, and the emergence of new organizational actors who have struggled to decentralize Child against the opposition of powerful national politicians. - Reproduced.
650			_aLocal government - Chile
650			_aLocal government
773			_aComparative Political Studies
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999			_c60739 _d60739