Decentralized Government and Infrastructure Provision: The European and American Unions Compared, with a Focus on Transportation
42 Pages Posted: 2 Feb 2014
Date Written: January 31, 2000
Abstract
This is a paper about two intertwined topics: federalism and infrastructure. It is also a paper about two intertwined subcontinents (in a political, economic and cultural sense at least): Europe and the United States of America. The basic question to be considered here is whether there is an “optimal” level of centralization in government delivery of infrastructure goods and services. The European and American Union approaches to certain categories of infrastructure will be compared in terms of their governmental centralization (and its opposite, decentralization).
Keywords: federalism, intergovernmental relations, infrastructure, governance, public management, European Union
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