Mechanisms of Merit: Causes of Increased Bureaucratic Insulation and Its Effect on National Fiscal Policy

• In Event: Come Together: Federalism and Decentralization

Brief Overview

I test two institutional levers, political competition and federalism, on the level of bureaucratic insulation in a cross-national panel of 108 countries. I then test the role of bureaucratic insulation on fiscal outcomes in these states.

Author

• Luke Martin Shimek, Indiana University-Bloomington