Mariely López-Santana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariely López-Santana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariely |
| FAMILY NAME | López-Santana |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ-SANTANA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emerging issues and new frontiers in federalism, regionalism and territorial governance
This essay marks the transition to a new editorial team at Regional & Federal Studies and offers a broad review of emerging themes and future directions in the study of federalism, regionalism, and territorial governance. Building on the journal’s legacy, it identifies key areas of conceptual and empirical development, highlights ongoing shifts in the global research landscape, and calls for greater geographical and epistemological diversity beyo…
Engaging Diversity
The discipline of political science faces significant disparities in the representation and participation of underrepresented groups in graduate education, including first-generation college students, racial and ethnic minorities, and women. Underrepresentation has a wide variety of limiting effects, including a narrower range of questions being explored within the field. This article proposes a template for teaching and mentoring undergraduate s…
Comparative Policy Analysis, Subnational Research, and Small- N Qualitative Research
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System
Recent fiscal crises in Detroit and Puerto Rico have brought Financial Oversight Boards (FOBs) to the forefront. In spite of these developments, there is a notable gap in the literature as social scientists have barely studied this type of oversight organization and its implications. This article highlights intergovernmental and political dynamics that arise with the imposition of FOBs in localities facing fiscal distress by studying the case of …
The nature of MS-13 in the American context
By focusing on the case of Northern Virginia (NOVA) and comparing it to the countries of the Central American Northern Triangle, this article argues that, in contrast to the dominant narrative, MS-13 in NOVA is a fragmented criminal organisation without much capacity to engage in sophisticated, transnational criminal activities. This piece “brings the State back in” to show that strong State capacity, grounded in a combination of coercive and inf…
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States
The architecture of fiscal federalism in the United States represents an obstacle for prompt and comprehensive policy responses to economic crises, especially by subnational levels of government. As both a public health and economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has put unique fiscal pressures on subnational governments. This article reviews the pandemic’s fiscal effects on these governments, as well as the federal government’s response. By compa…
Fragmented Democracy
As countries around the world increasingly embark on decentralization and devolution reforms (Hooghe et al. 2010), they face the quintessential tension between “unity and fragmentation”. As has been widely discussed, downward transfers of power can bring goods and services closer to the people. However, geographic variances in public policy and citizens’ experiences might become salient as subnational levels gain autonomy. The disadvantages of de…
The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe
Decentralising the Active Welfare State
This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures of decentralisation, as well as to their manifestations and implications. With the end of capturing dissimilar intergovernmental models of activation, this paper develops a framework of 'centre-regional' relations, which we ap…
The domestic implications of European soft law
The Treaty of Amsterdam launched the European Employment Strategy, a supranational non-binding instrument to boost employment rates and competitiveness. The open method of coordination, a new governance regulatory instrument, rules this common strategy. The article argues that the 'framing effect' of soft law is significant to policy-making across states, especially in the case of policy formulation. The analysis is grounded in the argument that …
The domestic implications of European soft law
The Treaty of Amsterdam launched the European Employment Strategy, a supranational non-binding instrument to boost employment rates and competitiveness. The open method of coordination, a new governance regulatory instrument, rules this common strategy. The article argues that the 'framing effect' of soft law is significant to policy-making across states, especially in the case of policy formulation. The analysis is grounded in the argument that …
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States
The architecture of fiscal federalism in the United States represents an obstacle for prompt and comprehensive policy responses to economic crises, especially by subnational levels of government. As both a public health and economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has put unique fiscal pressures on subnational governments. This article reviews the pandemic’s fiscal effects on these governments, as well as the federal government’s response. By compa…
Decentralising the Active Welfare State
This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures of decentralisation, as well as to their manifestations and implications. With the end of capturing dissimilar intergovernmental models of activation, this paper develops a framework of 'centre-regional' relations, which we ap…
Comparative Policy Analysis, Subnational Research, and Small- N Qualitative Research
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System
Recent fiscal crises in Detroit and Puerto Rico have brought Financial Oversight Boards (FOBs) to the forefront. In spite of these developments, there is a notable gap in the literature as social scientists have barely studied this type of oversight organization and its implications. This article highlights intergovernmental and political dynamics that arise with the imposition of FOBs in localities facing fiscal distress by studying the case of …
The domestic implications of European soft law
The Treaty of Amsterdam launched the European Employment Strategy, a supranational non-binding instrument to boost employment rates and competitiveness. The open method of coordination, a new governance regulatory instrument, rules this common strategy. The article argues that the 'framing effect' of soft law is significant to policy-making across states, especially in the case of policy formulation. The analysis is grounded in the argument that …
Decentralising the Active Welfare State
This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures of decentralisation, as well as to their manifestations and implications. With the end of capturing dissimilar intergovernmental models of activation, this paper develops a framework of 'centre-regional' relations, which we ap…
The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe
Fragmented Democracy
As countries around the world increasingly embark on decentralization and devolution reforms (Hooghe et al. 2010), they face the quintessential tension between “unity and fragmentation”. As has been widely discussed, downward transfers of power can bring goods and services closer to the people. However, geographic variances in public policy and citizens’ experiences might become salient as subnational levels gain autonomy. The disadvantages of de…
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States
The architecture of fiscal federalism in the United States represents an obstacle for prompt and comprehensive policy responses to economic crises, especially by subnational levels of government. As both a public health and economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has put unique fiscal pressures on subnational governments. This article reviews the pandemic’s fiscal effects on these governments, as well as the federal government’s response. By compa…
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System
Recent fiscal crises in Detroit and Puerto Rico have brought Financial Oversight Boards (FOBs) to the forefront. In spite of these developments, there is a notable gap in the literature as social scientists have barely studied this type of oversight organization and its implications. This article highlights intergovernmental and political dynamics that arise with the imposition of FOBs in localities facing fiscal distress by studying the case of …
The nature of MS-13 in the American context
By focusing on the case of Northern Virginia (NOVA) and comparing it to the countries of the Central American Northern Triangle, this article argues that, in contrast to the dominant narrative, MS-13 in NOVA is a fragmented criminal organisation without much capacity to engage in sophisticated, transnational criminal activities. This piece “brings the State back in” to show that strong State capacity, grounded in a combination of coercive and inf…
Comparative Policy Analysis, Subnational Research, and Small- N Qualitative Research
Emerging issues and new frontiers in federalism, regionalism and territorial governance
This essay marks the transition to a new editorial team at Regional & Federal Studies and offers a broad review of emerging themes and future directions in the study of federalism, regionalism, and territorial governance. Building on the journal’s legacy, it identifies key areas of conceptual and empirical development, highlights ongoing shifts in the global research landscape, and calls for greater geographical and epistemological diversity beyo…
Engaging Diversity
The discipline of political science faces significant disparities in the representation and participation of underrepresented groups in graduate education, including first-generation college students, racial and ethnic minorities, and women. Underrepresentation has a wide variety of limiting effects, including a narrower range of questions being explored within the field. This article proposes a template for teaching and mentoring undergraduate s…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Decentralization (4 works)