The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …

. -- Decentralization ; Governance ; Legal Quality ; Judicial Independence ; Federalism ; Institutions …The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …

This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing … framed in terms of notice, its origin, as well as the Court's rationale surrounding it, reveal that it is a federalism policy … beneficiaries - often the neediest -without a remedy and state noncompliance unaddressed. Federalism requires balancing federal …

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

designated as “Bayanihan Federalism”, has spurred vigorous debate, with much discussion focusing on the fiscal repercussions of …-sharing mechanisms of the Bayanihan Federalism draft, and the likely political acceptability levels of adopting them among existing local … trade-offs embedded in the revenue-sharing and functional assignment proposals of Bayanihan Federalism — especially when …