While some scholars argue that fiscal decentralization gave Chinese local officials strong incentives to promote local … context of China. In this paper, we explain the existence of interjurisdictional competition among Chinese local officials …

faced a major decline of its hegemony and that decentralization reforms have induced a polycentric dynamics. Seven basic …

public interest. This trend was encouraged by the central and local governments in a period of decentralization and European … integration. Decentralization offers a great opportunity for the French nonprofit sector; conversely, nonprofit organizations …

China's actual fiscal decentralization is one-sided: while public expenditures are largely decentralized, fiscal …. These results suggest that the one-sided fiscal decentralization in China may have regressive environmental effects and …

Decentralization is increasing in all parts of the world. Assessing the efficiency of decentralization as a means to … mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … empowerment mechanism. It suggests that decentralization could promote peace conditional on a set of countries and groups …

When studying local development, we find that decentralization and local governance are inseparable factors that … contribute strongly into the efficiency of local development attempts. Decentralization gives local authorities more …