present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …

aspects of federalism - exit-based normative justifications for federal regimes, voice-based normative justifications for … regimes from the politics of unitary states. Moreover, the case for federalism based on exit critically depends on the … argument for federalism based on improvement of ”voice.” Otherwise, migration from one city or state to another to escape …

are co-partisans with presidents, while senators support decentralization regardless of such party ties. When House … with decentralization …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …

decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared … ‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world. …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization’ and ‘centralization’ — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision making controls the degree of decentralization …

predictions of both the traditional and modern fiscal federalism theories and find that the effect of decentralisation on …