Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization

Alexander Libman

No 138, Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Abstract: The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization - using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country and a variety of indicators. It finds no robust correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three processes of devolution appearing in the same country at the same time seem to be driven by different (though partly overlapping) forces. Hence, a specific aspect of decentralization is hardly able to serve as a proxy for another one or for the overall decentralization process.

Keywords: Regulatory decentralization; fiscal decentralization; determinants of decentralization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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