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Editor's note: This article was adapted with permission of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was published originally in the La Follette Policy Report, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2001.
Around the world, the move from authoritarian regimes to democratically elected governments has often been accompanied by a movement away from fiscally centralized government to decentralized fiscal systems. Subnational governments have been given a substantial increase in responsibility for the provision of public services and the raising of revenues. This is certainly true in South Africa where, with the election of Nelson Mandela as ...