The politics of bad ideas -- The tax cut theories -- Evaluating the claims -- Budgetary politics and the spending mind-set -- Institutions, rules, and politics -- Big government republicanism costs money -- Politics, economics, and tax theories -- The impacts of recent fiscal policies on America...

This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of...

Local institutions play a fundamental role in governing access to resources, shaping delivery of services, and determining the experience of governance at local level. They are the principal mechanism to channel external interventions, resources, and assistance to poor households, women, and...