Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed … health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

The relationship between decentralization and the quality of governments is one of the core issues of decentralization … decentralization is that it will improve the accountability and responsiveness of government by altering its structure so as to … heterogeneity both in the quality of government as well as in the degree of decentralization. As for the former, variability within …