Decentralized Leadership

This article examines to what extent taxation authority should be delegated to local or lower-level government. Delegation of taxation authority can be regarded as a commitment to the local tax rate ex ante in a decentralized leadership model, in which local governments set policies ex ante and the central government decides transfer policies ex post. Previous papers point out that ex post interregional transfers of the central government distort ex ante regional policies of local governments. However, Silva clarify the case where efficient expenditure by local governments is achieved. This article examines the delegation of taxation authority by extending Silva’s model to include commitment to taxation and generally derives the conditions when efficient public expenditure by local governments can be achieved in relation to the delegation of taxation authority. The model adopted in this article allows various levels of spillovers of local public goods and various types of multipolicy commitments of taxation and/or expenditure.

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Equitable and Efficient Federal Structures with Decentralized Leadership, Spillovers, and Attachment of Heterogeneous Labor

Journal of Public Economic Theory ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9779.2010.01453.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 323-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

NAOTO AOYAMA ◽

EMILSON C. D. SILVA

Keyword(s):

Heterogeneous Labor ◽

Decentralized Leadership

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Tax Competition in a Fiscal Union with Decentralized Leadership

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.413862 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Marko Koethenbuerger

Keyword(s):

Tax Competition ◽

Fiscal Union ◽

Decentralized Leadership

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The Violence of Leadership in Black Lives Matter

10.1093/oso/9780197507773.003.0012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 243-262

Author(s):

Dana Francisco Miranda

Keyword(s):

White Supremacy ◽

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

Frantz Fanon ◽

Full Model ◽

Black Leadership ◽

Black Liberation ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

Decentralized Leadership ◽

Racialized Violence

Since the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, the United States has seen the coalescing of black protestors and activists along with their multiracial collaborators under the banner of Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). This struggle against racialized violence, police brutality, and white supremacy has been witnessed in myriad ways, with two of its most prominent “reactions” occurring in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland. Within this struggle, the organization Black Lives Matter (BLM) has chosen to follow a “leader-full” model that replaces traditional hierarchical forms of leadership for that of collaboration and decentralization. This chapter thus seeks to highlight the competing notions of centralized and decentralized leadership within black liberation movements to better understand this model. Using the works of Barbara Ransby, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and Frantz Fanon, this work will explore forms of black leadership that articulate alternative modes of accountability, service, and well-being within the struggle for black livability.

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