TY - JOUR
T1 - Does Efficiency Shape the Territorial Structure of Government?
AU - Hooghe, E.A.E.B.
AU - Marks, G.W.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This article asks three questions. Why is government organized across multiple levels? Does efficiency determine the level at which decisions are made? Does efficiency frame how policy problems are bundled in jurisdictions? Rather than examine how government structure may or may not lead to efficient outcomes, this article considers how efficiency constrains government. The purpose here is to probe fundamental commonalities of government structure which are usually taken for granted because they exist in an otherwise fluctuating political universe. Copyright © 2009 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.
AB - This article asks three questions. Why is government organized across multiple levels? Does efficiency determine the level at which decisions are made? Does efficiency frame how policy problems are bundled in jurisdictions? Rather than examine how government structure may or may not lead to efficient outcomes, this article considers how efficiency constrains government. The purpose here is to probe fundamental commonalities of government structure which are usually taken for granted because they exist in an otherwise fluctuating political universe. Copyright © 2009 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.041107.102315
DO - 10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.041107.102315
M3 - Article
SN - 1094-2939
VL - 12
SP - 225
EP - 241
JO - Annual Review of Political Science
JF - Annual Review of Political Science
ER -
