Political Obstacles to Decentralization: Evidence from Argentina and the Philippines

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Fiscal decentralization and deficits: International evidence (2010, background): “According to Eaton (2001), for example, political parties in Argentina and Philippines have used the reform aspect of decentralization as a tool of manipulating the party control over revenues and expenditures.”
Local Institutional and Political Structures and Processes: Recent Experience in Africa (2003, background): “Given the nature of decentralisation, how have some countries handled pressures to take back powers earlier granted to local communities, as has happened in other developing countries (Eaton, 2001; Wunsch, 2001)?”
Land policies for growth and poverty reduction (2003, background): “A number of observers have identified the failure to devote sufficient attention to the availability of local revenue sources as a key deficiency of recent decentralization initiatives (Boadway 2001; Eaton 2001).”