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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Widgren, Mika - 2021

This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....

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Think Locally, Act Locally : Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - 2021

In this paper, we analyze a class of models in which there are interjurisdictional spillovers among heterogeneous jurisdictions, as illustrated for instance by CO2 emissions that affect the global environment. Each jurisdiction's emissions depend upon the local stock of private capital. Capital...

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Uncovered Power : External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying

Battilana, Silvia Console - 2021

Where does the balance of power lie in a policy - making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred policy outcome even if all lobbies and...

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

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Leviathans, Federal Transfers, and the Cartelization Hypothesis

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2004

Federal fiscal arrangements are argued to give rise to tacit collusion among competing Leviathans (Brennan and Buchanan, The Power to Tax, CUP, 1980). Though frequently encountered in academic and policy discussions, the cartelization hypothesis has rarely been scrutinized formally. This paper...

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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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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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