potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather extreme preferences may win … the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and interregional …, factors that are normally considered to be arguments in favor of decentralization, may reduce the attractiveness of the …

measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static analysis of the equilibrium policy location and of the secession … risk with respect to the cultural distinctiveness of the two regions, the relative weight attached by voters to economic …-regional heterogeneity of preferences. -- majority voting ; secession risk ; cultural distinctiveness ; conflict ; overlapping regional …

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system … of public service supply is accommodating the informal one, but informal decentralization in public order provision tends … complementary rather than rival or free-riding on formal ones. -- formal decentralization ; informal decentralization ; sub …

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …