Making Decentralisation Work by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: governance/development/regions
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Opportunities and benefits

There are various economic, political and other reasons behind the upsurge of decentralisation reforms, and the reasons vary considerably across countries (see Chapter 2). For instance, in some countries, decentralisation can be seen as a counter-reaction to previous strong centralisation and even autocratic trends (Hooghe et al., 2016[1]). In these countries, decentralisation has been a way to ensure that democratisation will not be reversed. In other countries, decentralisation has been a method to reform the public sector, for example in order to improve the efficiency of public services, thereby curbing the growth of government spending. As for other motives, decentralisation is often thought to deliver positive effects, such as more accountable and transparent public governance, lower corruption, higher political participation and policy innovation. These benefits are discussed below.

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