Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went …

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … the effects of the decentralization of policy decisions such as taxes, expenditures, environmental standards, etc. The … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …