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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Faguet, Jean-Paul

Titel

Decentralization and Governance

Ist Teil von

• World development, 2014-01, Vol.53, p.2-13

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can make government more accountable and responsive to the governed. Improving governance is also a central justification of real-world reformers. But the literature has mostly focused on policy-relevant outcomes, such as education and health services, public investment, and fiscal deficits. This paper examines how decentralization affects governance, in particular how it might increase political competition, improve public accountability, reduce political instability, and impose incentive-compatible limits on government power, but also threaten fiscal sustainability. Such improvements in governance can help spur the broad historical transitions that define development.