Does Efficiency Shape the Territorial Structure of Government?
Liesbet Hooghe|Gary Marks
This article asks three questions. Why is government organized across multiple levels? Does efficiency determine the level at which decisions are made? frame how policy problems bundled in jurisdictions? Rather than examine structure may or not lead to efficient outcomes, this considers constrains government. The purpose here probe fundamental commonalities of usually taken for granted because they exist an otherwise fluctuating political universe.
Annual Review of Political Science|Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)