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Esteban, Joan - 2018

secession. We formulate as a result a number of policy recommendations on various dimensions of federalism and other … between groups in a country. The proposed framework allows us to jointly address several key stylized facts on secession, and … relative size and the relative surplus contribution of the minority group, conflict followed by secession can occur. Accepted …

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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...

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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...

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Heterogeneity, Vetoes, and Exit Clauses in Federal Systems

Huysmans, Martijn - 2018

The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...

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Overcoming History through Exit or Integration - Deep-Rooted Sources of Support for the European Union

Gehring, Kai - 2020

Preferences about the vertical distribution of power in federal systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher-level governments can plausibly raise demands for exit strategies and a devolution of power. But integration, for instance delegating power...

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Power Shifts, Emigration, and Population Sorting

Aklin, Michaël; Eichenauer, Vera Z. - 2022

We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual's decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case of...

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Revisiting the decentralization theorem: on the role of externalities

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2007

The "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of …

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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …

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Federalism and accountability with distorted election choices

Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2009

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, this study shows that...

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Educational federalism and the quality effects of tuition fees

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that a marginal introduction of tuition fees fully crowds out public funds under centralization, whereas educational...

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