Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have obtained the right to raise revenues locally to supplement central government grants in order to fund their activities. The extent to which they have used these local revenue-raising powers varies significantly across area and time. We seek to...

In countries where subnational governments control a large part of the public finances, the central government's ability to keep its commitment to the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact can be a difficult matter. European rules demand that the overall budget be balanced over the medium...

I analyze the link between partisan alignment of local politicians and the incidence of political corruption, using novel hand-collected data on local political corruption in Ghana. In line with political ambition theory, I hypothesize that local politicians aligned with the national government...