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We analyze the effects of political business cycles and fiscal autonomy on the expenditure categories of Polish municipalities. Using System GMM technique, we find convincing evidence for strong political business cycles in almost all expenditure categories, and in particular for the categories...
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for more fiscal decentralization. Within this subject, this paper has the goal of contributing to the discussion on tax … fiscal decentralization policy in Mexico. …
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“This research paper discusses the basic fundamentals of local government in theoretical perspective. The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the conceptual framework of local government with its significance in the modern era. Various approaches of local government are discussed in...
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The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of the decentralization of the public national health system in Spain … Barometer 1996-2009 and taking advantage of the exogeneity of the different pace of decentralization across Spain, we find that …, in general, decentralization has not improved citizens’ satisfaction with different features of the health services. In …
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E-government Partnerships across Levels of Government, is an overview of the challenges and approaches to creating a collaborative and cooperative partnership across levels of government for e-government development and implementation.
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decentralization, which is seen to be an important part of incentive compatibility. In the case of low-income housing it cites the … privatization of sites and services and devolution of upgrading as two promising models of decentralization. …
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The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …
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decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared … ‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world. …
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The paper compares the development of two institutional systems organizing the intergovernmental relations in the former Soviet Union: Russian federalism and post-Soviet regional integration. In spite of common origins, random selections of actors and common development trends in the first...
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to the supranational (regional integration) or subnational (decentralization) levels. Both aspects have been widely … institutions, informal decentralization and regional integration have been important factors with a profound impact on economic and …
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