Fiscal decentralisation (Mello)

Does fiscal decentralisation strengthen social capital? cross-crountry evidence and the experiences of Brasil and Indonesia by Luiz de Mello, published by OECD. This paper tests the hypothesis that, by giving people more voice in the government decision-making process, fiscal decentralisation fosters social capital, measured in terms of interpersonal trust. The results show that the cohorts of individuals that have been exposed to decentralisation are in general more pro-voice (and trustful of strangers in the case of Brazil) than their counterparts that have not been exposed to decentralisation.