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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(1):85-105; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn027
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This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Rescaling The State [View the issue table of contents]

A fiscal perspective of state rescaling

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev

Georgia State University, International Studies Program, PO Box 3992, Atlanta, Georgia, GA 30302, USA. jorgemartinez{at}gsu.edu, atimofeev{at}gsu.edu


  Abstract

Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the ‘scale division of labour of the state’, including among others, ‘destatization’, ‘denationalization’ and ‘internationalization’. We draw on the literature in public economics to review several approaches to measuring state rescaling. We employ these measures to produce empirical evidence on the extent of state rescaling and its determinants. We find that over the last two decades there has been a world trend towards decentralization while the average government size has not changed.

Keywords: fiscal decentralization, size of government, globalization

Received on June 10, 2008. Accepted on November 27, 2008.

JEL Classifications: F43, H11, H77


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