Schnellenbach, Jan; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - CESifo - 2006
The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional …. Instead, it is shown that the existence of rent extraction by delegates alone suffices to make cooperative centralisation more … design under representative democracy increase the likelihood of centralisation. Direct democracy may thus be interpreted as …