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Functional Decentralisation of Government Activity
Osterkamp, Rigmar; Eller, Markus - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 3, pp. 36-42
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How Decentralised Is Government Activity?
Osterkamp, Rigmar; Eller, Markus - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 1, pp. 32-35
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Competition, knowledge, and local government
Stansel, Dean - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 25 (2012) 3, pp. 243-253
This paper applies the insights of Austrian economics to an important issue in local political economy. Basic economic theory holds that greater competition produces superior outcomes in private goods markets. The same should be true in the “markets” for the output of local government....
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Making Fiscal Decentralization Work; Cross-Country Experiences
Fedelino, Annalisa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The question of what makes fiscal decentralization work is faced by many policymakers around the world. This book draws …, and discusses the key factors that help make decentralization sustainable, efficient, and equitable from a macroeconomic …
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Federalism, distributive politics and representative democracy
Cheikbossian, Guillaume - In: Economics of Governance 1 (2000) 2, pp. 105-122
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 …
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Centralization Trade-off with Non-Uniform Taxes
Gregor, Martin; Tuchyòa, Peter - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2005
from homogenous districts, our centralization dominates decentralization for any degree of spillovers. In other cases, it …
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Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization
Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
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 …
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Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: a Political Economy Analysis
Besley, Timothy J.; Coate, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
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 …
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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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Inducing Local Government Performance in Ghana: The Case of the District Development Facility
Akudugu, Jonas Ayaribilla - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 3 (2013) 6, pp. 1402-1417
Decentralisation has become an essential tool of democracy and development. Decentralisation has been widely promoted … all over the world as a means of promoting governance, participation and local development. Undoubtedly, decentralisation …
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