How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size?

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin

Fiscal Decentralization and Government in Latin America.PDF

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DECENTRALIZATION AND THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT How does the degree of political decentralization in a country affect the quality of its government? Greater political decentralization

How does the degree of political decentralization in a country affect the quality of its government? Greater political decentralization might make governments more honest and efficient by bringing officials “closer to the people”, forcing them to compete for mobile capital, and facilitating the satisfaction of diverse local tastes. On the other hand, it might create coordination problems or roa...

How does poaching affect the size of national parks?

A variety of human activities have detrimental impacts on populations of species the park is designed to protect. These impacts range from direct hunting for trophy or subsistence needs, through vehicular collisions, to the direct loss of habitat due to forestry and agricultural activity. These impacts reduce the effective size of the parks and require changes in management policy that deal bot...