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We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons). Though self-governance is best for the population, it faces problems of long-term viability. Typically, in providing security...
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In this paper we analyze the structure of contest equilibria with a variable number of individuals. First we analyze a situation where the total prize depends on the number of agents and where every single agent faces opportunity costs of investing in the contest. Second we analyze a situation...
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influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn‘t like the result, they would …-sourced constitution bill from 2009 to 2014, and also offers an explanation as to why the bill failed to be passed by Parliament …
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A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...
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We investigate the effect of electoral rules and political regimes on fiscal policy outcomes in a panel of 61 democracies from 1960 and onwards. In presidential regimes, the size of government is smaller and less responsive to income shocks, compared to parliamentary regimes. Under majoritarian...
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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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's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that … instrumenting the probability of having budget rules on de jure constraints on changing the constitution. This and other tests …
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This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …-occupied Denmark and Denmark's 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland's 1944 …
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-crash constitutional revision process launched in 2009. Also, the paper offers a brief account of some aspects of the constitution …
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constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as ‘digital democracy …' reveals some important lessons. High-quality input into constitution-making processes through digital participation is …
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