Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation

Decentralisation offers significant opportunities to improve government accountability by exerting stronger pressures both from below (demand) and above (supply). The literature contains many examples, however, where the potential has not been realised, partly because decentralisation reforms have o...

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Main Authors:	Yilmaz, Serdar, Beris, Yakup, Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 Intergovernmental Relations Federalism Secession H770 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180
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spelling	okr-10986-50322021-04-23T14:02:20Z Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation Yilmaz, Serdar Beris, Yakup Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 Intergovernmental Relations Federalism Secession H770 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Decentralisation offers significant opportunities to improve government accountability by exerting stronger pressures both from below (demand) and above (supply). The literature contains many examples, however, where the potential has not been realised, partly because decentralisation reforms have often been introduced without thinking through their accountability implications. Even when accountability is taken into account, the efforts tend to emphasise either the supply or the demand side of the equation, but not both. Drawing on the sets of literature on fiscal, administrative and political decentralisation, this article presents a methodology for studying this. 2012-03-30T07:30:56Z 2012-03-30T07:30:56Z 2010 Journal Article Development Policy Review 09506764 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5032 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic	Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 Intergovernmental Relations Federalism Secession H770 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180
spellingShingle	Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 Intergovernmental Relations Federalism Secession H770 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Yilmaz, Serdar Beris, Yakup Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
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description	Decentralisation offers significant opportunities to improve government accountability by exerting stronger pressures both from below (demand) and above (supply). The literature contains many examples, however, where the potential has not been realised, partly because decentralisation reforms have often been introduced without thinking through their accountability implications. Even when accountability is taken into account, the efforts tend to emphasise either the supply or the demand side of the equation, but not both. Drawing on the sets of literature on fiscal, administrative and political decentralisation, this article presents a methodology for studying this.
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author	Yilmaz, Serdar Beris, Yakup Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo
author_facet	Yilmaz, Serdar Beris, Yakup Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo
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title	Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
title_short	Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
title_full	Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
title_fullStr	Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
title_full_unstemmed	Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation
title_sort	linking local government discretion and accountability in decentralisation
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Linking Local Government Discretion and Accountability in Decentralisation

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