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Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … the effects of the decentralization of policy decisions such as taxes, expenditures, environmental standards, etc. The … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …

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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Herrera, … - 2020

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...

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