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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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Intergovernmental transfer under heterogeneous accountabilities: The effects of the 2006 Chinese Education Finance Reform
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the impacts of the 2006 Chinese Education Finance Reform, one of the world's largest education transfer grants, on public school spending in 1600 Chinese counties that were treated differently in timing and matching ratios, and show natural experimental evidence on how heterogeneous top-down and bottom-up accountabilities affect the allocation of transfer grants.
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Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution, revealing how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better.
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Decentralisation: What does it contribute to? Added value of Decentralisation for living conditions in Core cities of the EU
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of decentralisation on living conditions in core cities of the European Union were investigated using data from the Urban Audit to investigate whether the level of local expenditures relative to central government expenditures has any impact on the subjective appreciation of local living conditions.
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Fiscal Competition in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature
TL;DR: The authors surveys the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on decentralization which attempts to answer three questions: does theoretical literature on fiscal competition and bidding races contribute to a better understanding of such phenomenon in developing countries?
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The Two Logics of Perverse Fiscal Federalism in the Developing World
TL;DR: The second logic of perverse fiscal federalism is found in developing federations without ethnonational minorities: in many of these states, personalist electoral institutions preserve excessive expenditure decentralization with a soft budget constraint as mentioned in this paper.
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