Bulletin n. 1-2/2014
November 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Thuy Vu Thanh, Zouikri Messaoud, Deffains Bruno
    The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and Its Impact on Subcentral Governance Performance: the Case of Vietnam
    in CESifo Economic Studies , Volume 60 Issue 3 September 2014 ,  2014 ,  613-652
    Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical studies. In this article, we find no evidence of complementary or substitutive relationships in our empirical analysis of the relationship between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces in Vietnam. Instead, the formally decentralized system of public goods and service provision accommodates the informal one, and informal decentralization in public order provision tends to compete with the existing and ineffective formal system. This implies that the central government needs to reorganize the decentralized provision of public order and public goods and services to make informal institutions complements to rather than competitors of or free-riders on formal institutions.
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