Decentralization is among the most important global trends of the new century, yet there is still no consensus on how to design political institutions to realize its benefits. In this paper, we investigate the political conditions under which decentralization will improve the delivery of public...

Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the quot;scale division of labor of the state,quot; including among others, quot;destatization,quot; quot;denationalization,quot; and quot;internationalization.quot; We draw on the literature in public economics to review...

This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on both public investment in innovation (measured as the share of research and development - R&D - spending in total government budget) and on the intensity of basic research within the public R&D bundle. We present a theoretical model...