ISBN: 3790816698
TITLE: Decentralised Government in an Integrating World
AUTHOR: Stegarescu
TOC:

1 Introduction 1
1.1 General Scope 1
1.2 Topics and Related Literature 4
1.2.1 Existing Studies 4
1.2.2 Plan of the Work 5
2 Public Sector Decentralisation: Measurement and International Trends 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 Measuring Public Sector Decentralisation 12
2.2.1 General Definitions 12
2.2.2 Common Measures of Fiscal Decentralisation 13
2.2.3 Non-Fiscal Measures of Public Sector Decentralisation 16
2.2.4 Different Approaches to Measuring Fiscal Autonomy 17
2.3 Corrected Indicators of Revenue Decentralisation 19
2.3.1 Tax Autonomy 19
2.3.2 Degree of Tax and Revenue Decentralisation 21
2.4 A Current Overview of OECD Countries 23
2.4.1 Public Expenditures 23
2.4.2 Fiscal Autonomy and Revenue Decentralisation 25
2.5 Fiscal Decentralisation Trends in OECD Countries 31
2.5.1 Public Expenditures 31
2.5.2 Fiscal Autonomy and Revenue Decentralisation 34
2.6 Discussion and Conclusions 39
3 Costs, Preferences, and Institutions: The Determinants of Fiscal Decentralisation 41
3.1 Introduction 41
3.2 Decision-Making Institutions and Government Decentralisation 44
3.3 An Institutional Overview of OECD Countries 49
3.3.1 Participation of Subnational Entities in Central Decision-Making 49
3.3.2 Direct Democracy at the National Level 57
3.4 Quantitative Analysis 60
3.4.1 Empirical Model 61
3.4.2 Institutions 63
3.4.3 Costs and Preferences 66
3.5 Results 71
3.6 Discussion and Conclusions 79
4 Economic Integration and Fiscal Decentralisation 81
4.1 Introduction 81
4.2 Theoretical Framework 84
4.2.1 Basic Assumptions 84
4.2.2 The Optimal Degree of Decentralisation 87
4.2.3 Political Integration 90
4.3 Empirical Analysis 92
4.3.1 Empirical Considerations 93
4.3.2 Descriptive Statistics 95
4.3.3 Investigation Approach 98
4.4 Results 101
4.4.1 Basic Estimations 101
4.4.2 Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness Checks 107
4.5 Discussion and Conclusions 112
5 Long-Term Trends in the Public Sector: An Inquiry into German History 115
5.1 Introduction 115
5.2 A Brief History of German Federalism 117
5.2.1 The German Kaiserreich (1871-1918) 117
5.2.2 The Inter-War Period (1919-1938) 120
5.2.3 The Postwar Period (since 1949) 121
5.3 Quantification of Long-Term Trends in the Public Sector 124
5.3.1 Growth of the Public Sector 124
5.3.2 The Process of Public Sector Centralisation 127
5.4 Determinants of Fiscal Decentralisation in Germany 137
5.4.1 Quantitative Approach 137
5.4.2 Results 139
5.5 Discussion and Conclusions 142
6 Summary and Conclusions 145
A Theoretical Model 151
B Tables and Figures 153
C Data Sources and Definitions 2O3
I} Descriptive Statistics 211
List of Figure 213
List of Tables
 215
References 219
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