Bukowski, Rajagopalan and their contributors seek to cross both
analytical and geographic boundaries in the study of why and how
authority shifts both within and beyond the modern nation-state.
They develop a conceptualization of the re-distribution of
authority, that is, when the capacity of governmental and societal
units involved in carrying out the tasks and responsibilities of
governance change over time, relative to each other. They argue
that this is a more comprehensive alternative to extant
conceptualizations used to study the shifting of authority, such as
decentralization, regionalism, or federalism. Nine diverse cases
are then presented: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the United States,
Russia, Spain, Portugal, Senegal, and South Africa. Each case
addresses the questions: Which are the factors that explain the
re-distribution of authority? Under what conditions are some of
these factors more important than others?
Despite the diversity of the cases in both geographic location
and levels of economic and political development, four major
explanatory factors emerge as common across all nine cases:
identity-related claims, economic imperatives, considerations of
administrative efficiency, and political agency. Moreover,
discerning the complex interaction of these factors is necessary in
understanding the re-distribution of authority in both its
centralizing and decentralizing forms, across all levels of
governance. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and
policy researchers involved with international relations,
comparative politics, public administration, political development,
and state formation, and ethnonational politics.
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