Local Government Restructuring Lab

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Decentralization and Spatial Inequality

Prof. Warner and her Local Government Restructuring Lab conduct sophisticated spatial models to show the importance of state-level policy, and differential impacts across rural and urban communities. In contrast to the efficiency claims of decentralization theory, we find decentralization leads to more spatial inequality.

Publications

Xu, Yuanshuo and Warner, Mildred E. 2022. “Crowding Out Development: Fiscal Federalism after the Great Recession," Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54(2), 311-329. DOI:10.1177/0308518X211053643

Xu, Yuanshou, and Warner, Mildred 2016. "Does Devolution Crowd Out Development?  A Spatial Analysis of US Local Government Fiscal Effort", Environment and Planning A, 48(5): 871–890. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15622448

Xu, Yuanshuo and Mildred Warner, 2015, “Understanding Employment Growth in the Recession: The Geographic Diversity of State Rescaling,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, special issue on Local Growth Evolutions: Recession, Resilience and Recovery, 8(2): 359-377 doi:10.1093/cjres/rsv001

WEBINARS

“US Local Government Response to Fiscal Crisis: Austerity Urbanism or Pragmatic Municipalism?” Section on Chinese Public Administration (SCPA) of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), July 6, 2021. 354 participants. https://youtu.be/uL1MGA5dBz4

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