The impact of fiscal decentralisation on education and other types of spending

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 451-481

  Busemeyer, Marius R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIETIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Education spending; Fiscal decentralisation; OECD democracies; Pooled time series analysis; Public spending; Social spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749152898     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2008.tb00109.x     Document Type: Article

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