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Transfer of powers and reallocation of the social capital available to junior governments
[Transfert de compétences et réallocation du capital social à la disposition des collectivités territoriales]

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  • Pierre Salmon

    (LATEC - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Techniques Economiques [URA 342] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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The article starts from the assumption that the production of junior governments in sub-central jurisdictions such as the department of the region is related both to the powers or resources that they receive from the central government and to the social capital which is available to them. A model is proposed in which both elements are considered as factors o f production. The second being able to move only slowly across levels of jurisdiction, the central government is itself unable to transfer rapidly powers or resources from one level to another without running the risk of an efficiency loss of the whole which it would find unacceptable in terms of electoral support.

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  • Pierre Salmon, 1993. "Transfer of powers and reallocation of the social capital available to junior governments [Transfert de compétences et réallocation du capital social à la disposition des collectivités territoriale," Working Papers hal-01526545, HAL.
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