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4 years ago

New data reveals how close governments are to their people worldwide!

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How Close Is Your Government to Its People? Worldwide Indicators on Localization and Decentralization
Maksym Ivanyna, Anwar Shah

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The article presents a new data set that looks at how local governments make decisions, focusing on how close they are to the people they serve. This data set covers 182 countries and measures the level of autonomy local governments have in political, fiscal, and administrative matters. The researchers then combined these measurements to create a "decentralization index" and a "government closeness index" after adjusting for differences between countries.