’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and compare the implications of a centralized allocation process with a … decentralized allocation process. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of fiscal federalism. …

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 …

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

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 …

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 …