The relationship between decentralization and the quality of governments is one of the core issues of decentralization studies. This paper aims to make two contributions to this research. Firstly, we conduct an empirical analysis at the local level, covering 174 regions across the European...

This paper investigates the relationship between regional autonomy and the quality of governments in 171 European regions. We employ a novel dose-response approach that allows us to identify the distribution of the effect of decentralization on quality of governments. We find that the...