# kaal:claim:3808852-031

**Claim.** Local governments and private organizations can rarely fulfill government functions effectively without control over an adequate level of revenues, and that revenue control must be tied to authority over local expenditure decisions to be effective.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to fiscal arrangements accompanying governmental decentralization

**Source quote.**

> For example, private organizations and local governments can rarely fulfill government functions effectively if they do not control an adequate level of revenues.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), V. Governmental Decentralization, page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** fiscal-decentralization, local-government, revenue-authority, effectiveness-conditions

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