Fiscal Decentralization and Trust

被引:13
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作者
Dincer, Oguzhan [1 ]
机构
[1] Illinois State Univ, Dept Econ, Campus Box 4200, Normal, IL 61790 USA
关键词
fiscal decentralization; trust;
D O I
10.1177/1091142109358706
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
Using data from U.S. states and various measures of decentralization, I investigate the relationship between fiscal decentralization and trust. I find that a one standard deviation increase in either revenue decentralization or expenditure decentralization causes the share of trusting people in a state to increase by almost 4 percentage points. A one standard deviation increase in the number of governments, however, causes trust to increase by almost 2.5 percentage points. The results are robust to endogeneity.
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页码:178 / 192
页数:15
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