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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274661
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Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786998
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
decentralized allocation process. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of fiscal federalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262698
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269401
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Tying your enemy's hands in close races: The politics of federal transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278616
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Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madies, Thierry; … - 2018
individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decision-making. We show that increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816636
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Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597409
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543258
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021642