of regulation and is perhaps the most significant decentralization in U.S. environmental policy. However, few studies … to increase the stringency of regulation. This evidence points to desirable effects of decentralization. …

consistent with real world observations, and thus provide a new explanation for weak environmental policy performance. …

regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as “authorized” or having “primacy.” Although such decentralization …

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …