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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden
Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008
This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby to raise intergovernmental grants to their local government. The model identifies a relationship between council size and grants received. I then study this relationship empirically using the...
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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021
investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545693
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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...
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Decentralization and Local Governance on Public Services Delivery : The Cases of Daknong and Hau-Giang Province in Vietnam
Nguyen, Viet Quoc - 2012
the process of decentralization in Vietnam is very important but my main question is having economic growth in general as … well as social development and poverty reduction in the region been affected by decentralization? This paper thus focuses … decentralization process. The case studies presented here show that the impact of decentralization varies greatly depending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162460
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Decentralization and Local Government Performance : Improving Public Services Provision in Bolivia
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2006
This paper reviews some of the more important rationales for decentralization to date, examines their theoretical … underpinning, and the goes on to describe the elements of a nwe theory of decentralization which might take us far in our … effects of decentralization in Bolivia. We find strong evidence that devolving resources and power to local government has (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056017
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Fiscal transfers, local government, and entrepreneurship
Danisewicz, Piotr; Ongena, Steven - 2020 - This draft: December 24, 2020
Can local government spending spur entrepreneurial activity? To answer this question we study a setting where, around multiple pre-determined and non-manipulable thresholds, municipalities with lower tax revenues receive direct and different monetary grants from the national budget. Employing a...
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Fiscal capacities of large cities in Croatia : financial support for smart cities
Hodžić, Sabina; Paleka, Hana - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 2, pp. 42-49
In a dynamic market, the city has become a main source of competitiveness, along with financial and economic benefits. Due to the processes of digitalization, a new concept has been developed, namely smart cities. This concept delivers economic and financial potential, not only to cities, but...
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Citizen Support for Increasing the Responsibilities of Local Government in European Countries : A Comparative Analysis
Van de Walle, Steven; Baker, Keith; Skelcher, Chris - 2014
The transfer of responsibilities from central to local government has often been justified on the grounds of efficiency and democracy under the principle of subsidiarity. The existing models for mapping local government power in Europe, however, are often insufficiently detailed to allow...
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Do Mentoring and Oversight Matter? The Effects of Allocating Central Administrators to Local Government Units : Evidence from Japan
Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2019
During the 2000s, Japanese central administrators were actively transferred from the central government to mentor and monitor local governments in the hopes of mitigating deficit bias. Using a generalized difference-in-differences model and rich administrative data, I find that municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105338
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Local Governments' Response to Fiscal Shocks : Evidence from Connecticut
Giesecke, Oliver; Mateen, Haaris - 2022
The deteriorating fiscal position of municipalities across the United States raises the question which adjustment mechanisms municipalities have at their disposal and what their effects are. We utilize quasi-experimental variation in the year of property tax assessments in the state of...
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