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The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization
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In this article, the authors propose a decentralization approach based on checks, balances, and freedom, where data to the rescue is used to solve the problem of ethnic conflict and secession.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. The political process 3. Administrative efficiency 4. Competition among governments 5. Fiscal policy and redistribution 6. Fiscal coordination and incentives 7. Citizens and government 8. Checks, balances, and freedom 9. Acquiring and using knowledge 10. Ethnic conflict and secession 11. Data to the rescue? 12. Conclusion: rethinking decentralization.read more
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Federalism in Europe and Latin America: Conceptualization, Causes, and Consequences
TL;DR: Ernesto Lopez-Cordova, Christopher M. Meissner, and Lyle A. Allan as mentioned in this paper discuss the three worlds of welfare capitalism and propose a solution to the problem.
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Civil Society Organizations’ Experiences of Participative Environmental Mainstreaming: A Political Systems Perspective of a Regional European Polity
TL;DR: This article explored civil society organizations' experiences of participative environmental mainstreaming and found that CSOs' participation is shaped by electoral politics, party dynamics, veto players and strategic bridging.
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Effect of Governance Decentralization on Service Delivery in County Governments in Kenya
TL;DR: The Co-operative University of Kenya (Co-operative university of Kenya) as mentioned in this paper, Nairobi, Kenya is the only university in the country with a full-time teaching assistant.
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Decentralization Without Democracy
Katrina Kosec,Tewodaj Mogues +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit the partial rollout of decentralization in the autocratic context of Ethiopia and use a spatial regression discontinuity design to identify its effects and explain decentralization's mixed effects in many nondemocratic settings.
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Electoral discourse and the party politicization of sport in multi-level systems: analysis of UK elections 1945-2011.
TL;DR: The authors explored the role of electoral politics in shaping public policy on sport in the UK and found that there has been a sharp increase in issue-saliency over recent decades, confirming the party politicization of sport as part of the wider rise of valence politics.
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
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