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The Architecture of Government

    RETHINKING POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION

  DANIEL TREISMAN

  University of California, Los Angeles

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Treisman, Daniel.
The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization / Daniel Treisman.
   p. cm. – (Cambridge studies in comparative politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-87229-4 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-69382-0 (pbk.)
1. Decentralization in government. 2. Central-local government relations.
3. Federal government. 4. Comparative government. I. Title. II. Series.
JS113.T74  2007
320.8 – dc22      2006032899

ISBN 978-0-521-87229-4 hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-69382-0 paperback

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