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Landry, Pierre. "Decentralization and Regime Transformation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40430_index.html>

Landry, P. F. , 2005-09-01 "Decentralization and Regime Transformation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40430_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between decentralization and democracy around the world. Based on cross-section time-evidence data that combines measures of fiscal decentralization with most complete dataset of authoritarianism and democracy around the world, I find evidence of a causal link between decentralization and democracy. Democracies are likely to favor fiscal decentralization. Moreover, the decentralization of fiscal expenditures further reinforces the likelihood of democracy. This feedback loop comes with twist, because revenue and expenditure decentralization have opposite impacts on the survival of regimes. Autocracies that develop the capability to decentralize revenue collection are likely to endure, as do democracies that decentralize spending authority. These findings help explain why some authoritarian regimes have pursed decentralization strategies in an era where decentralization and democratization seem highly correlated. As long as these regimes develop and maintain institutional mechanisms that allow them to extract taxes locally while at the same time limiting the discretionary powers of local politicians by centralizing expenditure assignments, authoritarian regimes can rationally adopt strategies of partial decentralization.

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