Resumen

HERNANDEZ TRILLO, Fausto  y  TORRES ROJO, Juan Manuel. Denition of Responsibilities, Accountability and Budget Efficiency in a Federation: The Mexican Case. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2006, vol.68, n.1, pp.1-47. ISSN 2594-0651.

This article presents empirical evidence to corroborate whether people know who is accountable for the provision of the different public goods. The results suggest that people do not know what the responsibilities of each government level are. The decentralization theorem of Oates suggests that the quality of public goods improves when the production of these is decentralized since preferences line up better because of the proximity between citizens and the government.

Palabras llave : fiscal descentralization; definition of responsabilities, government orders.