id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1j92g73474k Carlos Gervasoni A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Fiscal Federalism in Argentina 2011 .txt text/plain 383 15 31 Intergovernmental revenue-sharing rules that produce large vertical fiscal imbalances and favor the economically smaller districts provide their incumbents with generous fiscal federalism rents that allow them to restrict democratic contestation and weaken checks and balances. Even in well-established national democracies like the USA in the 1950s or Argentina in the 1990s local regimes are often far from democratic. cache/1j92g73474k.txt txt/1j92g73474k.txt