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Words or deeds – what matters? Experience of recentralization in Russian security agencies
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although decentralization is often modeled as an outcome of bargaining over rents and poli-cies, intuitively it seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855794
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Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020501
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Russian federalism and post-Soviet integration: Divergence of development paths
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper compares the development of two institutional systems organizing the intergovernmental relations in the former Soviet Union: Russian federalism and post-Soviet regional integration. In spite of common origins, random selections of actors and common development trends in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260235
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Informal regionalism in Central Asia: subnational and international levels
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
to the supranational (regional integration) or subnational (decentralization) levels. Both aspects have been widely … institutions, informal decentralization and regional integration have been important factors with a profound impact on economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695062
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Models of market integration in Central Asia – comparative performance
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper considers the problem of the integration of markets in Central Asia as a main factor of economic modernization. It first identifies the potential channels of reduction of transaction costs barriers between countries (“models of integration”). Second, it looks at the emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506938
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Internal centralization and international integration in the post-Soviet space
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
decentralization observed in the CIS region over the last two decades and develops a simple framework explaining the differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543795
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Essays on Asymmetric Federalism
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The growing research on fiscal and political federalism in economics (as well as rational choice political science) basically shares two main assumptions regarding federal institutions: it takes democratic and symmetric federations as the reference point. Democracy means that the decision making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529309
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Economic role of public administration in Central Asia: Decentralization and hybrid political regime
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
overview of decentralization and devolution of power in Central Asian countries as one of the main channels of transformation … of administration. The paper covers both formal decentralization and informal distribution of power between levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790024