Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization

Libman, Alexander (2009): Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization.

Abstract

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three processes of devolution appearing in the same country at the same time seem to be driven by different (though partly overlapping) forces. Hence, a specific aspect of decentralization is hardly able to serve as a proxy for another one or for the overall decentralization process.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: constitutions; deregulation; decentralization; fiscal decentralization; administrative decentralization; devolution
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession; H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations

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