The Decentralization of Society
'Thank you for Smoking!': a multi level study on the policy impact of anti tobacco movements, tobacco industry's countermovements and political opportunity structure on tobacco control policies in 22 European countries
... Tobacco legislative ban 0-21 Independent Variable Tobacco export per capita in $ log Decentralization political system 0-1 Likeliness political actions 0-2 Liberal society 0-1.. Frequenc[r] ...
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Impact of Decentralization on the Corruption Phenomenon
... addition, supplementary resources they can control in order to strengthen patronage and social control networks. These unwanted evolutions at the local level must, however, be put in balance with the other tendency, just ...
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Implementing Decentralization
... towards decentralization in Kosovo by evaluating the challenges that the decentralization process has faced since the adoption of the Constitution of Kosovo one year ...challenging decentralization ...
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Decentralization and Social Capital in Indonesia
... New growth theory suggests unorthodox variables—beside the well-known capital, labor, and technology—also hold important role in economic growth (Whiteley, 2000). One of the variables is the social capital. The seminal ...
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Does Fiscal Decentralization Dampen All Ethnic Conflicts? The heterogeneous Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Local Minorities and Local Majorities
... to decentralization alike need to be restated in terms of the local minority/majority status of the ethnic ...democratic society, the decen- tralized regional policy will be that of the regional median ...
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Making decentralization work A compliance perspective of decentralization
... a tight focus of the WWB allowing them not to see the bigger picture. As Pollit and Bouckaert (2011) would indicate, which is in agreement with the statement of this report, civil servants should be more multi-purposed ...
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Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships in China: A Political Economy Perspective
... of society. Fiscal decentralization, as evidenced in China, provides local government with incentives to build a hospitable environment of competition for people and capital and, therefore, prospers local ...
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The Efficacy of Decentralization in the Republic of Macedonia
... states. Decentralization and the development and reform of local governments are fundamental elements in the transition of East European countries to such a democratic and capitalistic ...
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Fiscal Decentralisation, Public Expenditure Management and Human Capital Development in Nigeria
... fiscal decentralization, public expenditure management and human capital development in ...fiscal decentralization, public expenditure management and human capital development and sees fiscal ...
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Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation
... distrust in governments’ capacity to run large industrial and commercial enterprises and thus sponsors shrinking of the government and privatization (divestment) just as the classical liberals of the 9th century, ...
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Voting, lobbying, and the decentralization theorem
... welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and ...
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Essays on the political economy of decentralization
... Chapter 4 finds that two features of the UK are of particular use in empirical testing theories of government responsiveness. First, the UK is a venue for comprehensive FOI legislation covering a sufficiently large ...
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Decentralization and Regional Inflation in Indonesia
... between decentralization and inflation as one of the key aspects of macroeconomic stability has been surveyed by a number of studies and the findings are generally ...that decentralization correlates with ...
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Essays on Electoral Accountability and Equalization Transfer under a Decentralized Context: The Case of Peruvian Municipalities
... The design of the decentralization of education has been inefficient. The subnational government expenditure powers are not well defined in the legal framework. Thus, there are overlaps or contradictions in the ...
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Explaining party positions on decentralization
... of decentralization, the more the opposition (government) will oppose it, and vice ...that decentralization is used strategically as an element of competition between state-wide parties, both in and out of ...
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An Afro-Existential Approach to the Development of the Nigerian Society
... The western existentialists’ understanding of freedom is also not far removed from the African notion of freedom. I am free to make of myself what I will, and I take responsibility for what I make of myself. The African ...
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Global Tendencies to Decentralization and the Provision of Environmental, Educational and Health Services in the Context of Developing Economy
... on decentralization, including the Tiebout model, in the context of developing ...on decentralization, Bardhan (2002) argues that the important assumption of population mobility in the Tiebout model fails ...
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5th Congress of the Spanish Society of Developmental Biology
... Baguna4 pm 5th Congress of the Spanish Society of Developmental Biology Alicante, 21 23 September 2006 MEETING REPORT The Spanish Society of Developmental Biology (Sociedad Espa?ola de Biologia del De[.] ...
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18th Congress of the Italian Society of Psychopathology: Psychopathology and ages of life
... Anche per quanto riguarda la schizofrenia, va ricordato come anch’essa sia caratterizzata da una traiettoria se- quenziale che comporta una fase premorbosa con lievi e non specifiche d[r] ...
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Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in Mongolia
... As decentralization promotes the competition between local governments to attract a business, hence, the initial equilibrium will shift from the optimal point and this will lead to ...extensive ...
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