Resumo:Análise comparativa sobre a divisão de poderes no Brasil, Canadá, Estados Unidos e México.
Resumo:Apresenta tabelas sobre: subnational share of expenditures in the Americas; types of central-local division of power in the Americas; division of powers and purpose in Mexico, 1982-2000; division of powers and purpose in Brazil and Mexico, 1992.
Sumário:The origins of the central-local division of power -- Types of central-local division of power -- The central-local division of power : institutional configuration and partisan composition -- Mexican federalism : old institutions, new political and economic reality.