IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/igtrxx/v25y2023i03ns0219198923400030.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Centralized versus Decentralized Control of Forest Use in a Federal Structure with Elite Capture

Author

Listed:
  • Indrani Roy Chowdhury

    (Center for Studies in Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India)

Abstract

The debate around centralized versus decentralized control of forest usually focuses on the incentive and information structures under these two forms of control. This paper however examines on a less analyzed feature, that of elite capture of the revenue generated out of forest use. In particular, I examine a scenario where the bureaucrats controlling forest management are corrupt, and also have significant influence at the central level. I find that state control leads to lower degradation if and only if the extent of elite capture is not too small. Further, if the central government controls the allocation of forest income among states, in addition to controlling the magnitude of forest use, then forest degradation is lower relative to the case when the central government controls forest use alone.

Suggested Citation

  • Indrani Roy Chowdhury, 2023. "Centralized versus Decentralized Control of Forest Use in a Federal Structure with Elite Capture," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(03), pages 1-15, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:igtrxx:v:25:y:2023:i:03:n:s0219198923400030
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219198923400030
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219198923400030
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0219198923400030?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:igtrxx:v:25:y:2023:i:03:n:s0219198923400030. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/igtr/igtr.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.