A trend toward decentralisation has meant that sub-national governments increasingly find themselves responsible for providing a host of public goods and services. Rarely, however, can they "go it alone". Co-ordination among levels of government is imperative. This book offers a unique analytic...

This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...

Governance-Formen im Mehrebenensystem der Länder -- Verwaltungspolitische Entwicklungsphasen und vertikale Steuerungsbeziehungen -- Verwaltungspolitik der Länder im Vergleich: Reformen auf Makro- und Mikroebene seit 1990 -- Handlungsorientierungen und Steuerungsinstrumente in der...

"This review focuses on the objectives and direction of the State Territorial Administration Reform (STAR) that the Government of Hungary launched in 2010. It provides an evidence-based evaluation of the current state of the reform and identifies steps that can be taken to improve...