# kaal:claim:3808852-035

**Claim.** Government decentralization at the local level can favor local elites and may overcomplicate the coordination of national policies.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Furthermore, government decentralization at the local level can favor local elites and may overcomplicate the coordination of national policies.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), V. Governmental Decentralization, page 22

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

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**Failure mode.** local elite capture  (family: plutocratic-capture)

**Topics.** regulatory-failure, institutional-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** elite-capture, policy-coordination, governmental-decentralization, decentralization-limits

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