Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …

spillover effects - as the case of environment protection spending - comparing decentralized and centralized system, when … spending and taxation decisions are made by nonbenevolent politicians. As in the recent so-called Second Generation Theory (SGT … particular, the convenience of having decentralization versus centralization changes with the degree of spillovers and the size …

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first … provide careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel …

system a single representative is elected by a federal vote. It is shown that under decentralization, voters strategically … choice is biased towards decentralization. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000 …

This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating …. The efficiency of decentralization and the performance of 'constitutional rules' (such as majority voting) which may be … used to choose between decentralization and centralization are then discussed in this framework. Stronger externalities and …

of centralization stressed in the existing literature disappear, suggesting that the case for decentralization must be … driven by political economy considerations. Our political economy analysis assumes that under decentralization public goods …