Empowered by DesignIn her probing book, Empowered by Design, Meg Rincker asks, Under what conditions will decentralization lead to womens empowerment in countries around the globe? Using three case studiesthe United Kingdom, Poland, and Pakistanshe shows how decentralization reforms create new institutional offices as power shifts from the national level to a meso tier level, which is located between the national government and local municipalities. These shifts impact