In government we trust: The role of fiscal decentralization

Ligthart, Jenny E.; Oudheusden, Peter van

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2014.11.005

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“…For this reason, Tolbert and Mossberger (2006) and Lee (2019) separate government into federal, state, local government and central, local government, Congress, and the court, respectively. In addition, Ligthart and van Oudheusden (2015) examine the influence of fiscal decentralization on trust in the national government, parliament, and civil service. They find the lopsided impacts of fiscal decentralization on trust in specific branches of government.…”

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Government for Leaving No One Behind: Social Equity in Public Administration and Trust in Government

Lee

2021

SAGE Open

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A great deal of ink has been spilled over attempts to increase trust in government. Surprisingly, the impact of social equity on trust in government has received relatively little attention. Particularly, insufficient attention has been paid to empirically connect the linkage between a country-level social equity and an individual-level trust in government. The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of social equity on citizen trust in government. This study uses a multilevel analysis to take into account macro-country level social equity. The findings from analyzing the World Values Survey and the Rule of Law Index reveal that social equity in administrative processes is positively associated with trust in the courts and the police. It is imperative to consider social equity in public administration to get a better understanding of developing citizen trust in government.

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Government for Leaving No One Behind: Social Equity in Public Administration and Trust in Government

Lee

2021

SAGE Open

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“…Even though existing theories do not specifically describe the relationship between decentralization and citizen trust, they imply that the economic benefits of decentralization may enhance the relationship between citizens and the government (Ligthart & van Oudheusden, 2015). According to the theoretical framework discussed above, decentralization is argued to improve public service efficiency, move the government closer to the citizens, and make it more responsive to citizen preferences (Oates, 1972(Oates, , 1977(Oates, , 1999Pollitt, 2005).…”

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Decentralization and citizen trust: An empirical study of policing in more and less developed countries

Lowatcharin

Stallmann

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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Decentralization is argued to enhance citizen–government relationships and, thus, to lead to higher levels of citizen trust. General purpose policing encompasses various services that might be assigned to different levels of governments. The literature lacks generalizable studies of the effects of the structural arrangements of police systems on police performance. This study is a cross‐national exploration of the relationship between the varying degrees of police decentralization and police performance as measured by citizen trust in the police. It uses a measure of decentralization of police systems based on the tiers of government with some control over police. Results show that, in the 72 sample countries, the relationship between citizen trust in police and decentralized police systems is not statistically significant. However, when the countries are categorized by the Human Development Index, decentralized police systems tend to be positively related to citizen trust in the more developed countries but inversely in the less developed countries.

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“…2 See Ligthart and van Oudheusden (2015) for empirical evidence on the positive relationship between trust in the government and FD.…”

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Fiscal Decentralization, Political Heterogeneity and Welfare

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Neyaptı²

2022

Prague Economic Papers

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This paper contributes to the literature on fiscal decentralization by presenting a formal model of the interaction between the central and local governments (CG and LGs, respectively) where LGs may differ in their degree of political alignment with CG. The non-cooperative optimal behaviour of the agents reveals that optimal tax increases with the extent of fiscal decentralization (FD), political unison and spillovers across localities, while LGs' optimal tax collection effort is negatively associated with all of these parameters. The first novel finding of our study is that both welfare peaks and income distribution are more equitable at a lower level of FD in the case of spillovers than in the case of no spillovers, which supports the decentralization theorem. The second novel finding is that both the amount of redistributable income and central government utility increase with the degree of political unison.

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In government we trust: The role of fiscal decentralization

Cited by 36 publications

References 38 publications

Government for Leaving No One Behind: Social Equity in Public Administration and Trust in Government

Government for Leaving No One Behind: Social Equity in Public Administration and Trust in Government

Decentralization and citizen trust: An empirical study of policing in more and less developed countries

Fiscal Decentralization, Political Heterogeneity and Welfare

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