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	Fiscal Decentralization Analysis	Government Trust Survey
Field	Public Administration	Public Administration
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1972	2017
Originator	Wallace E. Oates	OECD (Trust in Government programme)
Type	Applied analytical framework for intergovernmental finance	Population survey instrument for institutional trust
Seminal source	Oates, W. E. (1972). Fiscal Federalism. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN: 9780155274525	OECD (2017). Trust and Public Policy: How Better Governance Can Help Rebuild Public Trust. OECD Public Governance Reviews. Paris: OECD Publishing. Trust in Government.
Aliases	Fiscal Federalism Analysis, Intergovernmental Fiscal Analysis, Decentralization of Public Finance Analysis, Subnational Finance Analysis	Trust in Government Survey, Public Trust Measurement, Institutional Trust Survey, Confidence in Public Institutions Survey
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Summary	Fiscal decentralization analysis examines how taxing, spending and borrowing powers are divided among levels of government — central, regional and local — and what that division means for efficiency, equity and accountability. Its theoretical foundation is the fiscal federalism tradition pioneered by Wallace Oates, whose 1972 book Fiscal Federalism and 1999 essay set out when decentralized provision improves welfare and how intergovernmental transfers should be designed. The method maps the assignment of revenues and expenditures across tiers, measures the degree of decentralization and the gap between subnational spending and own revenue, and assesses how these arrangements affect service delivery, redistribution and the accountability of governments to citizens.	A government trust survey is a population-based survey instrument for measuring how much citizens trust their public institutions and identifying the drivers of that trust. Building on the OECD's Trust in Government work, modern instruments treat trust not as a single mood but as a set of measurable expectations: that government is competent and reliable in delivering services, and that it acts on values such as integrity, openness, fairness and responsiveness. By surveying a representative sample of the population, weighting responses to the population, and analyzing trust alongside its drivers, the method produces comparable indicators that diagnose where and why public trust is high or low and what policy levers might raise it.