conflicts and endogenous decentralization, dealing with the structure and borders of jurisdictions. …

attempt towards fiscal decentralization must be firmly grounded in the basic principles of fiscal federalism, irrespective of …Decentralization since early 1990s has become one of the buzzwords of the development paradigms. Among all ingredients … of decentralization, the fiscal component of it has a special significance. Not surprisingly the literature unanimously …

aspects of federalism - exit-based normative justifications for federal regimes, voice-based normative justifications for … regimes from the politics of unitary states. Moreover, the case for federalism based on exit critically depends on the … argument for federalism based on improvement of ”voice.” Otherwise, migration from one city or state to another to escape …

present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …

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 …

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. …