This paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution (decentralization reforms) of … that, for comparative purposes, it measures government decision making at the local level rather than at the sub … dimensions of decentralization and localization. These sub-indexes are aggregated and adjusted for heterogeneity to develop an …

I develop and test two competing models assessing the impacts of targeted government transferson a local incumbent …

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analyzing how … decentralization impacts upon incentive and selecion effects, and thus on voter welfare. The model abstracts from features such as … public good spillovers or economics of scale, so that absent elections, voters are indifferent about the fiscal regime. The …

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analyzing how … decentralization impacts upon incentive and selection effects, and thus on voter welfare. The model abstracts from features such as … public good spillovers or economies of scale, so that absent elections, voters are indifferent about the fiscal regime. The …

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analyzing how … decentralization impacts upon incentive and selection effects, and thus on voter welfare. The effect of fiscal centralization on voter …

decentralization index and are then adjusted for heterogeneity to develop a government closeness index. …This paper provides a unique data set on local governance. This dataset measures government decisionmaking at the local … level, i.e. the level of government closest to the people. By contrast, the existing literature has focused on …