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Intertwined Federalism: Accountability Problems under Partial Decentralization
Joanis, Marcelin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009
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/10005027209
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Improving Fiscal Federal Relations for a Stronger Mexico
Sánchez, Aida Caldera - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277017
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Does Fiscal Decentralisation Strengthen Social Capital?: Cross-Country Evidence and the Experiences of Brazil and Indonesia
Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764470
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A comparison of internal and international barriers to trade
BRETON, Albert; SALMON, Pierre - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1999
principle, while in the context of competitive federalism the methods lead to what can be called a proper balancing of benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579043
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762207
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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270385
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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
. -- 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831728
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Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354073
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Federal Directives, Local Discretion and the Majority Rule
Loeper, Antoine - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8 (2013) 1, pp. 41-74
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883394
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Intertwined Federalism : Accountability Problems Under Partial Decentralization
Joanis, Marcelin - 2009
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