Does Efficiency Shape the Territorial Structure of Government?
Posted: 4 Jun 2010
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Does Efficiency Shape the Territorial Structure of Government?
Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 12, June 2009
Posted: 08 Aug 2009
Date Written: June 2009
Abstract
This article asks three questions. Why is government organized across multiple levels? Does efficiency determine the level at which decisions are made? Does efficiency frame how policy problems are bundled in jurisdictions? Rather than examine how government structure may or may not lead to efficient outcomes, this article considers how efficiency constrains government. The purpose here is to probe fundamental commonalities of government structure which are usually taken for granted because they exist in an otherwise fluctuating political universe.
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Hooghe, Liesbet and Marks, Gary, Does Efficiency Shape the Territorial Structure of Government? (June 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1600561 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.041107.102315
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