public goods. Therefore, my findings indicate that decentralization can lead to a failure in the provision of local public …

study identified two major periods and their various level of governance, from the Nationalization period or era where … Identification has been rolled out. The use of the institutional theory provided further understanding of the sector reforms. In …

beneficiary of these reforms. …

and the derived conclusions, and the results are interpreted through the prism of social changes and economic reforms …

of fiscal decentralization remained lower than in the EU countries. The efficient decentralization should incorporate … capacity of local government units to provide an insight into the main problems of decentralization in Croatia. We show that … the most of local government units have very low fiscal capacity and cannot finance basic public functions from their own …

particular. Decentralization is an instrument for efficient and participatory governance. It has emerged as one of the most … important governance reforms in recent history: Approximately 80 percent of all developing and transition countries have …"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services …