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Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism

March 11, 2021 LPS Alliance

A book by Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Raúl A. Ponce Rodríguez Scholars and practitioners have long hailed fiscal federalism as a critical tool for improving government services, but it has not always lived […]

The role of Provincial Councils in Afghanistan

August 3, 2015 LPS Alliance

Since they were elected for the first time in 2005, Afghanistan’s Provincial Councils (PCs) have been suffering from ill-defined and, its members think, too little authority. Those elected to the councils ten years ago found […]

Electoral Accountability and Local Government Spending in Indonesia

July 31, 2015 LPS Alliance

Proponents of devolution suggest that directly elected local governments are more responsive and more accountable to the people, and therefore, that devolution and having directly elected local officials should improve local public services. In contrast, […]