Mo Qiao,刘勇政——EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY:Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size: The Role of Democracy
时间:2019-04-11
This paper examines how the level of democracy in a country affects the relationship between fiscal decentralization and government size. We argue that political regimes, proxied by their democracy levels, are important for different decentralization theories to predict the impact of fiscal decentralization on government size. We test this argument using panel data from 76 developed and developing countries during 1972–2013. We find strong and robust evidence that fiscal decentralization is nega