Strategic Inefficient Decentralization: Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes

• In Event: Decentralization and State Building

Brief Overview

We provide an explanation for why most developing countries in the last few decades have decentralized locally while very few have decentralized regionally or become federal. We combine a model with cases from Africa and Latin America.

Authors

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland

• Emily A. Sellars, Yale University