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Revista mexicana de sociología
On-line version ISSN 2594-0651Print version ISSN 0188-2503
Abstract
HERNANDEZ TRILLO, Fausto and TORRES ROJO, Juan Manuel. Denition of Responsibilities, Accountability and Budget Efficiency in a Federation: The Mexican Case. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2006, vol.68, n.1, pp.1-47. ISSN 2594-0651.
This article presents empirical evidence to corroborate whether people know who is accountable for the provision of the different public goods. The results suggest that people do not know what the responsibilities of each government level are. The decentralization theorem of Oates suggests that the quality of public goods improves when the production of these is decentralized since preferences line up better because of the proximity between citizens and the government.
Keywords : fiscal descentralization; definition of responsabilities, government orders.