Many countries have adopted decentralization policies in order to strengthen democratic governance. Nevertheless …, empirical literature on whether decentralization actually strengthens democratic governance is relatively limited when compared … to empirical literature on the impact of decentralization on a wide array of fiscal or economic variables. Therefore …

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …

The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …

bundesstaatlichen Finanzbeziehungen »nicht die Schlechtesten«, da auch der Koalitionsvertrag bereits einige finanzielle Zugeständnisse …

Ende 2019 läuft der Solidarpakt II aus. Sollte im Kontext der Neuordnung der Bund-Länder-Finanzbeziehungen die …

. Ihrer Meinung nach sollte die Neuordnung der Bund-Länder-Finanzbeziehungen auch Anlass sein, bei der Steuerzerlegung bessere …