The common perception that Montesquieu is not a major theorist of federalism is due both to the peripheral nature of … federalism were not contained in his brief treatment of confederate republics, but rather in his lengthy consideration of Gothic …

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …