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Journal Article
Decentralization: Conceptualization and measurement
2003
Overview
Decentralized government institutions are doing more of the work of government than ever before, but there is little agreement about 1) what decentralizations, or 2) how it should be measured. To overcome this confusion, this article builds on standard definitions of decentralization that include three core dimensions: fiscal, administrative, and political. The article offers an empirical test of that definition using factor analysis of data from 1996 for 68 countries. Factor analysis confirms these three core dimensions and generates a score for each case in each dimension, allowing countries to be measured according to their type and degree of decentralization. In future work, these scores can be used for hypothesis testing about the causes and effects of decentralization on important social outcomes. This exercise demonstrates that conceptual confusion need not hamper research when empirical tests can help verify conceptual categories. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V
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