# kaal:claim:3808852-037

**Claim.** Governmental decentralization tends to occur during political or economic crises, because the fall of a regime and the resulting power vacuum causes power struggles, and it is during those struggles that forms of political decentralization emerge.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- conditioned on regime collapse or crisis of legitimacy

**Source quote.**

> Governmental decentralization often takes place during times of political or economic crises. The fall of a regime and the resultant power vacuum often causes power struggles. It is during those power struggles that forms of political decentralization emerge.

**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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**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** political-crisis, power-vacuum, governmental-decentralization, regime-change

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