Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez 
Author-Email: jorgemartinez@gsu.edu 
Author-Homepage: https://icepp.gsu.edu/profile/jorge-martinez-vazquez/
Author-Workplace-Name:  International Studies Program. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage:  https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Author-Name: Andrey Timofeev
Author-Email:atimofeev@gsu.edu
Author-Homepage: http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/TimofeevA.html
Author-Workplace-Name: International Studies Program. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Title: Decentralization Measures Revisited
Abstract:The first goal of this paper is to develop a taxonomy of decentralization measures showing their relationship to the primary theoretical aspects of decentralization and how the different measures are related to each other. The second goal of the paper is to argue convincingly that from an empirical analysis perspective the aggregation of those distinct dimensions of decentralization into a single indicator inevitably leads to a loss of information and that a preferable approach in multivariate frameworks is to enter these distinct aspects of decentralization in the regression analysis separately in the most flexible functional form possible.
Keywords: Decentralization, Taxonomy of decentralization, measures of decentralization
Length: 38 pages
Creation-Date: 2009-08-01
File-URL: http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp0913.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0913