Scholars of performance incentives for regional officials in transitional states debate the appropriate degree of centralization and decentralization of political control. Decentralized administrative systems are said to encourage beneficial jurisdictional competition among regional officials,...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Fiscal federalism -- 3. Bureaucratic incentives -- 4. Information, monitoring and control -- 5. The local state -- 6. Logic of divergence -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Index.