Comparative political economy offers a wealth of intriguing hypotheses connecting political decentralization to better public service delivery, improved governance, and reduced corruption. Although highly influential, recent formal and experimental work has begun to question the underlying theory and empirical analyses of previous findings. At the same time, many countries have grown dissatisfi...

This paper presents a multiregional econometric model of China. The pioneering large-sized model consists of seven blocks with over 1,200 equations. It covers 30 provinces of China for the period from 1985 to 1998. Panel data technique is adopted to estimate behaviour equations. A counterfactual simulation is conducted to assess the impact of fiscal recentralization on China’s regional economie...

The article analyzes the intergovernmental relations developed during last 30 years, in context of an apparent unitary and decentralized State, Peru. analysis was carried out from perspective local governments. research interpretive phenomenological type to account for social imaginary mayors regarding centralism, recentralization, conflicts functions, competencies between government actors. It...

Abstract China’s educational leaders have long debated the pluses and minuses of decentralization of control and resources of China’s vast educational enterprise. During various periods of post-1949 China, the central authorities have devolved control to the provinces, key cities, and rural communes, only to recentralize later usually due to political reforms. In this chapter various stages of ...

Abstract Intergovernmental conflicts, in Latin America’s centralism and the recentralization Peru, have been more acute over last 30 years, producing sociopolitical, economic, cultural problems at subnational levels. Based on design of grounded theory Glasser Strauss, this sociopolitical phenomenon is analyzed from perspective local governments Puno region to account for emerging categories sub...

after a relatively long period of centralization and with the beginning of decentralization experiences since 1970s, the periodical orientations and trends of governments towards both centralization and decentralization systems appeared. stemming generally from political and economic domains, decentralization entered curriculum and education system from these domains. problems such as deficienc...