@article{2018,title={ASSIGNMENT OF EXPENDITURE RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF FISCAL FEDERALISM},abstractNode={Fiscal federalism has recently become a significant issue for federal governments, due to the fact that it increases the productivity of the public sector and thus affects the macroeconomic performance of the country positively. Fiscal federalism is the distribution of authority of tax collection and assignment of expenditure responsibilities among different levels of governments. Toward the end of the 20st century, by the means of the economic and political effects of globalization, the traditional public administration began to evolve into this new concept of public administration model and it has been used as a tool of political campaign in many countries. In fact, fiscal federalism has four main components. These are assignment of revenues to local governments, assignment of expenditure responsibilties to local governments, transfers among diffent levels of governments and subnational borrowing. In this study, the expenditures responsibilities of local governments which is a very important component will be examined in detail in the context of fiscal federalism. The important questions to be answered in this study are should the expenditure responsibilities be given to the local governments, which expenditure responsibilities should be under the authority of the local governments and how this affects the public sector.},author={Yıldız ÖZKÖK},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}