I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing first- and second … attention in future research: a wider range of political distortions beyond capture and corruption; effects of decentralization … on intercommunity allocations, learning, and experimentation, and on democracy itself; a comparison of decentralization …

This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … decentralizing reforms. The implications of ferences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth are discussed. The …, is discussed, in attempting to abstract from the two cases to more general lessons for fiscal decentralization …