Many societies must confront the possibility that greater ethnic diversity will result in more ethnic tensions. Most approaches to ethnic identification either ignore the role of the state or treat it as either a leader or a pawn of the ruling ethnic group(s). This paper employs a rent-seeking...

This paper focuses on mandates, i.e., directives to lower levels of government to undertake specified activities. We examine the conditions under which mandates should be funded by the higher level government that issues them. An analytical framework is developed within which a funding rule for...