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Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of pow…
Using Japan and France as case studies, this book argues that decentralization is fundamentally an 'oppositional' policy advocated by political parties in opposition, placed on the legislative agenda when they come to power, and pursued at times even when it ceases to make parti…