This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

A rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent place to study the
relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes. This essay has three …

This article revisits the influential “Leviathan” hypothesis, which posits that tax competition
limits the growth of government spending in decentralized countries. I use panel data to …

Since the tax-sharing reform in 1994, the Chinese fiscal system has exhibited a marked
vertical fiscal imbalance—a mismatch between expenditure and revenue assignments—at …

Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make
government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past …

This article analyzes the efficiency of local governments in the Comunitat Valenciana
(Spain) and their main explanatory variables. The analysis is performed in two stages …

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin
America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's “Liviathan” …

Beyond conducting the usual regression analysis of the relationship between fiscal
decentralization and aggregate government size (national and subnational combined), this …

This paper analyzes one method governments employ to circumvent the discipline of a
competitive system of fiscal federalism—intergovernmental collusion in the form of …