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Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …
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Mexico has achieved a high degree of decentralisation in public services, but the Mexican fiscal federal system has important shortcomings. States and municipalities have become heavily dependent on federal transfers to finance a growing share of public spending. This leaves the burden of...
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This paper tests the hypothesis that, by giving people more voice in the government decision-making process, fiscal decentralisation fosters social capital, measured in terms of interpersonal trust. Empirical evidence based on World Values Survey data and seemingly unrelated probit estimations...
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principle, while in the context of competitive federalism the methods lead to what can be called a proper balancing of benefits …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in …
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. -- Federalism ; Decentralization ; Outvoted …The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …
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This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …
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I consider a heterogeneous federal system in which policy coordination is desirable but underprovided in the absence of a federal intervention. To improve policy coordination, the federal layer can intervene by imposing bounds on local policies. These federal bounds define a restricted policy...
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Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201038