Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of … these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide … scholars, that take a hard, objective look at the many effects of decentralization on economic and political issues in …

Decentralization is among the most important global trends of the new century, yet there is still no consensus on how … which decentralization will improve the delivery of public goods. We begin by incorporating insights from political science … and economics into a rigorous and formal extension of the “decentralization theorem”. Our extension assumes inter …