About Kent Eaton

Kent Eaton is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the territorial (re)organization of states, with a special interest in autonomy movements, the design and performance of federal institutions, and the causes and consequences of decentralization and recentralization. He is the author of several books on Latin American politics, including Territory and Ideology in Latin America: Policy Conflicts between National and Subnational Governments (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has also co-authored two monographs on decentralization for practitioners: The Democratic Decentralization Programming Handbook (USAID, 2021) and The Political Economy of Decentralization Reforms (World Bank, 2010).