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Two Essays On Governments Devolving Fiscal Authority To Lower-Level Actors, Jinsol Park
Two Essays On Governments Devolving Fiscal Authority To Lower-Level Actors, Jinsol Park
Theses and Dissertations--Public Policy and Administration
Over the past decades, there have been efforts across the globe to break the grip of the centralized power of government and devolve authority to lower-level actors. The devolution of authority in the governance system can take place in various ways: the central government can devolve authority, responsibility, and functions to local governments; or a local government can delegate its authority to make policy decisions to the citizenry, for example, as a form of public participation. In a broad sense, we can group all these government activities to devolve power to lower-level actors and call it “decentralization.” This dissertation attempts …