Devolution and inequality: a failure to create a community of equals?

Morelli, Carlo; Seaman, Paul

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00275.x

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“…Gil Canaleta et al, 2004;Ezcurra and Pascual, 2008;Lessmann, 2009;Rodríguez-Pose and Ezcurra, 2010). The emphasis on cross-country macroanalyses has been complemented by a spate of recent studies using microdata aimed at untangling the complex relationship between decentralization, on the one hand, and poverty (Sepúlveda and Martínez-Vázquez, 2011), interpersonal inequality (Morelli and Seaman, 2007;Tselios et al, 2012), or social capital (De Mello, 2011), on the other, respectively.…”

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Decentralization and the Welfare State: What Do Citizens Perceive?

Díaz-Serrano

Rodríguez‐Pose

2014

Soc Indic Res

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Trust in public institutions and public policies are generally perceived as a precondition for economic recovery in times of recession. Recent empirical evidence tends to find a positive link between decentralization and trust. But our knowledge about whether decentralization -through increased trustimproves the perception of the delivery and effectiveness of public policies is still limited. In this paper we estimate the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on the perception of the state of the education system and of health services, by using the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 waves of the European social survey. The analysis of the views of 160,000 individuals in 31 European countries indicates that while the effect of fiscal decentralization on the perception of the state of the health and education system is unambiguously positive, political decentralization affects citizen's satisfaction with education and health delivery in different ways. The influence of political decentralization, however, is highly contingent on whether we consider the capacity of the local or regional government to exercise authority over its citizens (self-rule) or to influence policy at the national level (shared-rule).

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Decentralization and the Welfare State: What Do Citizens Perceive?

Díaz-Serrano

Rodríguez‐Pose

2014

Soc Indic Res

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“…The inconsistencies between the IMDs for the UK's constituent countries and a lack of equivalent data over time indicates that constructing a UK-wide IMD time-series is not feasible (Dorling et al, 2007;Whynes, 2008). Morelli and Seaman (2007) acknowledge these difficulties mean that deprivation scores at different time points cannot usually be compared and that as a result, assessments of trends are difficult. This paper reports on the development of Townsend deprivation scores (Townsend, 1987) for wards across the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) for the census years 1991 and 2001.…”

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Identifying Change Over Time in Small Area Socio-Economic Deprivation

Norman

2009

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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The measurement of area level deprivation is the subject of a wide and ongoing debate regarding the appropriateness of the geographical scale of analysis, the input indicator variables and the method used to combine them into a single figure index. Whilst differences exist, there are strong correlations between schemes.Many policy-related and academic studies use deprivation scores calculated cross-sectionally to identify areas in need of regeneration and to explain variations in health outcomes. It would be useful then to identify whether small areas have changed their level of deprivation over time and thereby be able to:monitor the effect of industry closure; assess the impact of area-based planning initiatives; or determine whether a change in the level of deprivation leads to a change in health. However, the changing relationship with an outcome cannot be judged if the 'before' and 'after' situations are based on deprivation measures which use different, often time-point specific variables, methods and geographies.

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“…Several European Union (EU) countries underwent a process of political and/or fiscal decentralization in recent decades. The United Kingdom introduced a parliament in Scotland with a power to tax (Morelli and Seaman ), and Italy, Spain, and France created elected local governments. Belgium joined Germany and Austria and became a federal country.…”

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Does decentralization reduce income inequality? Only in rich states

Çavuşoğlu¹,

Dincer²

2015

Southern Economic Journal

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We investigate the relationship between fiscal decentralization and income inequality using data from U.S. states over three and a half decades. Our study contributes to the literature in several ways in terms of empirical methodology and specification. First, we take into account integration and cointegration properties of the data and estimate the cointegrating relationship between fiscal decentralization and income inequality using Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares, following Pedroni (2000). Second, we investigate the direction of the causality. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we investigate if the relationship between fiscal decentralization and income inequality is conditional on income in each state. We find that fiscal decentralization does reduce income inequality, but only in rich states. We also find that causality runs from fiscal decentralization to income inequality, not the other way around.

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Devolution and inequality: a failure to create a community of equals?

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Decentralization and the Welfare State: What Do Citizens Perceive?

Decentralization and the Welfare State: What Do Citizens Perceive?

Identifying Change Over Time in Small Area Socio-Economic Deprivation

Does decentralization reduce income inequality? Only in rich states

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