Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
Political Decentralization Dilip Mookherjee
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mookherjee, Dilip |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing firstand second-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing mainly on determinants of capture and local government accountability emphasized by second-generation theories. The article concludes by describing emerging new issues that deserve more attention in future research: a wider range of political distortions beyond capture and corruption; effects of decentralization on intercommunity allocations, learning, and experimentation, and on democracy itself; a comparison of decentralization with other organizational alternatives; and issues pertaining to design and implementation raised by first-generation federalism theories, such as interjurisdictional spillovers, vertical fiscal relations, the range of devolution, and the political economy of implementation. 231 A nn u. R ev . E co n. 2 01 5. 7: 23 124 9. D ow nl oa de d fr om w w w .a nn ua lr ev ie w s. or g A cc es s pr ov id ed b y B os to n U ni ve rs ity o n 08 /1 1/ 15 . F or p er so na l u se o nl y. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://people.bu.edu/dilipm/publications/ARE2015fin.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
