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Strategic Inefficient Decentralization : Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes
Ricart-Huguet, Joan; Sellars, Emily - 2021
Most contemporary decentralization has occurred at the local (district) rather than regional (provincial) level. Why … government in favor decentralizing to smaller, more fragmented units. Regional decentralization can better take advantage of … effectively. Central authorities may therefore have an incentive to forgo the welfare benefits of regional decentralization in …
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The Politics of Spatial Policies
Foster, David; Warren, Joseph - 2021
A wide variety of policies have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits. In many cases, such policies exhibit severe governance failures. We present a formal model to investigate how these policy failures relate to institutions for resident participation. In the model, residents of two...
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The Incentive Role of Creating 'Cities' in China
Li, Lixing - 2011
This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments - upgrading counties to cities. In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using...
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Regional investment and individual redistribution in a federation
Kessing, Sebastian; Schneider, Benny - 2014
We study the strategic incentives of regional governments to allocate their budget to public investment and to public consumption expenditures against the background of an incentive-compatible redistribution policy set by the central government. Regional investment changes the productivity...
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The LEADER process as a European policy for local development : a comparison of the implementation in three European member states ; paper contribution for 55th European Regional S...
Berriet-Solliec, Marielle; Laidin, Catherine; Lepicier, … - 2015 - Revised version, December 2015
New governance structures, meant to empower local decision makers, are supported by some policies introduced by the European Commission. LEADER, from rural development policy, is among these approaches. Nevertheless, these new policies are implemented in very different multi-level governance...
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Realising regional potentials through better market integration in China
Molnár, Margit - 2019
China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better exploited by creating a single product and labour market. Local protectionism increases transaction costs and hinders competition, thereby taking a toll on productivity....
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The Inter-Related Roles of the Regional and Local Government in Developing Local Partnerships in Italy
Caperchione, Eugenio; Zuffada, Elena - 2003
Building partnerships is becoming an important issue at the local level of government in many countries. Different experiences can be traced throughout Europe, as well as in other OECD countries. This is because partnerships, especially when the size of the single local government is small, can...
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Institutionelle Aspekte der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik
Wegener, Torsten - 2000
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Institutionelle Aspekte der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik
Wegener, Torsten - 2000
Infolge der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik entstehen entweder vollkommen neue Institutionen (horizontale Regionalisierung) oder Institutionen mit neuen Kompetenzen (vertikale Regionalisierung). Der Erfolg einer Regionalisierungspolitik läßt sich am Grad der...
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Territorial capacity and territorial outcomes : local governance and municipal NEET rates in Sweden
Korpi, Tomas; Minas, Renate; Andersson, Lisa - 2024
Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) is a heterogeneous group in which many run the risk of long-term exclusion from the labor market and from society. Numerous national and international policy initiatives targeting NEETs have therefore been launched, often involving the...
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