The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. -- foreign aid ; growth …. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination …

donor countries should carefully consider how both anti-poverty instruments - foreign assistance and decentralization - work …This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political decentralization as an institutional arrangement for rent-sharing and … decentralization. -- natural resources ; risk of conflict ; decentralization …

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

what condition an interest group prefers to direct its lobbying efforts to two parties or the two coalition and opposition … discipline. The lobbying efforts under un-enforced and enforced party discipline are also compared. Finally, we clarify the … parties ; ideological predispositions ; electoral power ; post-elections lobbying ; enforced party discipline …

prizes has the perverse effect of increasing their aggregate lobbying efforts. …

components: expected social welfare and lobbying efforts. The welfare component has a positive or no effect on the utility while … the lobbying efforts have a positive, negative or no effect on the utility (ii) introducing the political culture of the …

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first … demonstrate that in the latter setting, the compromising effect of lobbying need not exist. Our reduced-form, two-stage public …) desires to suckle thereby threatening the public well being more than the lobbying interest groups. The main result specifies …