ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. Political Economy
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1451195
Impact of social conflicts and fiscal centralization on fiscal efficiency and governance of subnational governments in Peru, 2016-2023
Provisionally accepted
José Luis Morales Rocha1*
Teófilo Lauracio Ticona2
Mario Aurelio Coyla Zela1
Jarol Teófilo Ramos Rojas1
Genciana Serruto Medina1
Nakaday Irazema Vargas Torres1Nilton Juan Zeballos Hurtado2- 1National University of Moquegua, Moquegua, Peru
- 2Universidad José Carlos Mariategui, Moquegua, Peru
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The objective of this article was to explore the impact of social conflict and fiscal centralism on the efficiency and fiscal governance of Peruvian sub-national governments between 2016 and 2023, a period of extreme political instability and social conflict. Data was collected from disaggregated official sources for the 24 departments and the provinces of Lima and Callao. The results were: the effectiveness of public spending by subnational governments has a limited impact on the development and welfare of the populations of the regions. Even in contexts without social conflict, subnational governments are unlikely to achieve effective governance or fiscal autonomy, due to contradictory state policies on fiscal decentralization. Despite the fiscal centralism reflected in administrative and technical practices, local governments are trying to improve their fiscal governance processes.
Keywords: public expenditure efficiency, Fiscal governance, subnational governments, fiscal autonomy, fiscal centralism, Political instability, Social unrest
Received: 18 Jun 2024; Accepted: 07 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Morales Rocha, Lauracio Ticona, Coyla Zela, Ramos Rojas, Serruto Medina, Vargas Torres and Zeballos Hurtado. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: José Luis Morales Rocha, National University of Moquegua, Moquegua, Peru
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