Tag: competition

• Decentralization and governance

  Abstract: This paper uses the Bolivian experience to examine 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, be it at a fiscal risk. Author(s): Faguet, Jean-Paul Source(s): , [Economic organisation and public policy discussion papers; 27 31 p.…

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  January 1, 2011

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  accountability, bolivia, competition, decentralization in government, Governance, political aspects

• Violence and social orders : a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history : implications for economic development

  Abstract: This framework for understanding political, economic, and social systems in human history, which is thought to culminate in competitive, open access orders with rich civil society and the impersonal provision of public goods, also explains privileges and rent creation in so-called natural states. Author(s): North, Douglass C.; Wallis, John Joseph; Weingast, Barry R. Source(s):…

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  January 1, 2009

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  competition, corrupt practices, developed countries, developing countries, economic development, elite, equal opportunity, political aspects, public services, social development, social history

• Governance gone local : does decentralization improve accountability?

  Abstract: This chapter discusses five key governance risks that could mitigate the posited advantages of decentralization: capture, clientelism, capacity constraints, competition over the balance of power between levels of government, and weaknesses in effective interregional competition. Author(s): Campos, Jose Edgardo; Hellman, Joel S. Source(s): East Asia decentralizes : making local government work, p. 237-252, ill.,…

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  January 1, 2005

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  accountability, competition, decentralization in government, elite, Fiscal policy, Governance, regional co-operation