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One size fits all? Decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2008

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization : A Survey

Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2015

In this paper we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economy … decentralization: its proper measurement and the potential endogeneity of fiscal decentralization with many of the variables of … decentralization on a relevant list of socio-economic variables. The impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on political …

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Looking Beyond Conventional Intergovernmental Fiscal Frameworks : Principles, Realities, and Neglected Issues

Smoke, Paul J. - 2017

Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing …

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Democracy and Debt

Schragger, Richard - 2012

Recent state and municipal budget crises have generated a great deal of consternation among market participants and policymakers; they have also led scholars to debate the merits of bailouts or other forms of debt relief. This Essay considers why the mechanisms that were supposed to control...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Stem Cell Research : Who Owns the Medical Breakthroughs?

O'Connor, Seán M. - 2013

The 2004 election year provided many focus points for those interested in stem cell research and its potential outcomes. California's Proposition 71, in particular, has arguably led the way to a new era of state and local public funding of stem cell research. This article does not address the...

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A Lost Generation but Renewed Hope : Oregon's Pension Crisis and the Road to Reform

Shepard, Scott Andrew - 2018

Like a number of other states, Oregon has been hampered in its pension reform efforts since 1996 by its state supreme court's embrace of the “California Rule,” a doctrine arising, in Oregon's case, from a misunderstanding of federal Contract Clause precedent. Under the misreading, states...

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Improving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

de Mello, Luiz - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and growing role in the provision of essential...

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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy

Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …

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Sustainable development in the bottom-up approach : selected aspects

Kuźniak-Król, Elżbieta - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 849-863

Economy, society, environment and sometimes indicated institutional and political system – on these pillars is based the idea of sustainable development. The necessity for a global balance in these dimensions hinders the multidimensional approach of ideas. These difficulties increase when the...

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