The recent, much remarked upon decentralization in Bolivia produced four important changes in the nation's public … investment in poorer municipalities. Existing theoretical treatments of decentralization cannot account for these phenomena. This … decentralization. Analyzing the location of residual power in a political system can help cut through the thicket of contradictory …

Applying the Institutional Model of Decentralization, the paper argues that the presumption that local democracy will …, decentralization policy is welfare-enhancing only for the developed regions, not for all, exacerbating interregional welfare disparity …

This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating … externality. The welfare benefits of decentralization, and the performance of "constitutional rules" (such as majority voting …) which may be used to choose between decentralization and centralization, are then discussed in this framework …

Oates' decentralization theorem (Oates [20]) grounds on the assumption that the central government is incapable to … proves that centralization and decentralization are equivalent (Weak Decentralization Theorem), whenever informational …