Scholars of government and business review the fundamentals of different strategies to address local government fragmentation and their observed consequences. The topics include an
international perspective on determining local government fragmentation, whether corruption and the size of local governments are related, evidence from a panel data analysis on whether fiscal
decentralization and government fragmentation affect corruption in different ways, evidence from local educational authorities in England on local government size and efficiency in
labor-intensive public services, and the experience of Brazil and Spain with inter-municipal consortia for the joint provision of services. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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