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A Contingency Approach to Decentralization

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  • Frederik Fleurke
  • Rudie Hulst

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After decades of centralization, in 1980 the central government of the Netherlands embarked upon an ambitious project to decentralize the administrative system. It proclaimed a series of general decentralization measures that aimed to improve the performance of the administrative system and to boost local democracy. This article presents the results of research into the effects of these measures. It shows that the decentralization project did not meet the high expectations. This can be explained by the fact that the theoretical framework underlying the decentralization policy was overly simple. The authors present a new framework that represents the contingent character of the effects of decentralization. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006

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  • Frederik Fleurke & Rudie Hulst, 2006. "A Contingency Approach to Decentralization," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 37-56, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:porgrv:v:6:y:2006:i:1:p:37-56
    DOI: 10.1007/s11115-006-6902-4
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