The effect of fiscal performance on local government election results in Israel: 1989-1998

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 2187-2205

  Brender, Adi ^a  

^a The Bank of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Local government; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141648653     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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