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Electoral competition, political promises and the "responsible party government" hypothesis

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Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation

Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (2009) 1, pp. 35-58

social optimum, while decentralization leads to "too little." Three effects of centralization — an "informational externality … democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy … logic suggests the opposite conclusion: centralization usually leads to "too much" policy experimentation, compared to the …

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Essays in Political Economy: Evidence from Brazil

BROLLO, Fernanda - In: Rivista Italiana degli Economisti 17 (2012) 1, pp. 133-142

This essay brings a synthesize of the doctoral thesis named "Essays in Political Economy:;Evidence from Brazil", which provides relevant contribution towards our understanding regarding the incentives and constraints that local governments face in the context of a federalist system. The analysis...

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The political economy of (de)centralization with complementary public goods

Cheikbossian, Guillaume - In: Social choice and welfare 47 (2016) 2, pp. 315-348

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Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods : a political economy analysis

Besley, Timothy; Coate, Stephen - 2000

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...

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Decentralization and spillovers : a new role for transportation infrastructure

Feder, Christophe - In: Economics of transportation : the official journal of … 13 (2018), pp. 36-47

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Euclidean preferences, option sets and strategyproofness

Bordes, Georges; Laffond, Gilbert; Le Breton, Michel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 469-483

In this note, we use the technique of option sets to sort out the implications of coalitional strategyproofness in the spatial setting. We also discuss related issues and open problems. -- social choice ; strategyproofness ; voting

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Chapter 2. The Political Economy of Commercial Policy

McLaren, J. - In: Handbook of commercial policy : vol 1A-1B, (pp. 109-159). 2016

This chapter surveys research on the demand for protectionism as well as theoretical and empirical work on the (i) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent trend is mutual feedbacks between commercial policy on...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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