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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211015
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Fiscal Federalism, Taxation and Grants
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016
traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555504
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Electoral Externalities in Federations - Evidence from German Opinion Polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615930
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Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sas, Willem - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207979
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353377
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Free-riding or internalizing? An opportunistic view on decentralization versus centralization
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - 2011
comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … federalism - is proposed in order to compare decentralized versus centralized solution: the gains from internalizing …. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274883
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658020
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Financing Bologna, the internationally mobile students in European higher education
Gérard, Marcel - 2008
Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264431
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Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957223
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075