23 DO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS affect how citizens view their government? This question is both theoretically important and policy-relevant. A central argument for more restrictive campaign finance laws at both the state and federal levels is that tighter rules will restore trust in the government and make citizens once again feel that they can affect the political process. Supreme Court de...

Addressing the human right to water and sanitation in the slums of Mumbai, India requires disentangling the provision of basic services from a more complicated set of questions around land security and land ownership. Millions of slum-dwellers in Mumbai lack adequate access to safe drinking water and sanitation, which places them at risk for waterborne diseases. Many slums are located in hazard...

This paper presents an application of interval methods for simulation of a policy game played by four main agents of economy: profit maximizing companies active on competitive market, the monopolistic trade union (aggregated wage setters), the government and the central bank. After reduction of companies as an active agent, the resulting three agents decision system is modeled as a Stackelberg ...

Many developing countries are experimenting with decentralisation of public service delivery to elected local governments instead of bureaucrats appointed by a central government. We study the resulting implications in a theoretical model in which the central government is uninformed about local need and unable to monitor service allocations. Bureaucrats charge bribes for services as monopoly p...

timur began his domination by the help he received from parts of the chaghataid troops. then and concurrent to extending his realm and power, he recruited defeated populations as new part of his army. simultaneously he established household – provincial powers in his occupations which his sons and grandsons ruled over them. this political – administrative tradition was followed by his successor...

This paper presents a multiregional econometric model of China. The pioneering large-sized model consists of seven blocks with over 1,200 equations. It covers 30 provinces of China for the period from 1985 to 1998. Panel data technique is adopted to estimate behaviour equations. A counterfactual simulation is conducted to assess the impact of fiscal recentralization on China’s regional economie...

This paper develops the fiscal health index of 21 local governments in Taiwan over the 1984 to 2010 period. A quantile regression analysis was used to explore the extent that economic variables, political budget cycles, and legislative checks and balances, impact different quantiles of fiscal health index for a country over a sample period of time. Our findings suggest that local governments at...