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The Political Economy of India’s Fiscal Federal System and its Reform

Rao, M. Govinda; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article examines recent and potential reforms in India’s fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take...

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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment

Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions, the analysis focuses on the major...

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Defining and measuring decentralisation: a critical review

Torrisi, Gianpiero; Pike, Andy; Tomaney, John; Tselios, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of terms belonging to the semantic field of state restructuring. The analysis aims to critically reviewing different terms focusing the attention both to the definitional and to the measurement sides. Different “types of decentralisation” are...

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Assessing the Mumbai metropolitan region: a governance perspective

Pethe, Abhay; Gandhi, Sahil; Tandel, Vaidehi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper written from a governance perspective takes the position that a useful governance perspective must be informed by the socio-economic-cultural milieu and in the specific Indian context must sit on a tripod of ‘political reality’, ‘state of decentralization’ and ‘basic economic...

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Re-imagining Federalism in India: Exploring the Frontiers of Collaborative Federal Architecture

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper argues that in response to contemporary challenges, the federal governance structure in India requires fine-tuning. A directional shift is required from a cooperative model to a collaborative model of federal governance in view of various endogenous and exogenous imperatives of...

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E-Government Partnerships Across Levels of Government

Charbit, Claire; Michalun, Varinia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

E-government Partnerships across Levels of Government, is an overview of the challenges and approaches to creating a collaborative and cooperative partnership across levels of government for e-government development and implementation.

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New Development of Fiscal Decentralization in China

Wang, Zhiguo; Ma, Liang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Understanding the logic of fiscal decentralization is pivotal for the next steps of fiscal reform, and retrospection of the literature and evidences accumulated in the field is the first step. As a typical transition economy with rapid and extensive devolution reforms, China is the ideal context...

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Who Contributes? A Strategic Approach to a European Immigration Policy

Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

According to the Lisbon Treaty the increasing cost of enforcing the European border against immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is rather vague with respect to the "appropriate measures" to adopt in order to distribute the financial burden. Members who do...

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Institutional Arrangements for Coordination Among Governments in Germany

Spahn, Paul Bernd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The theory of fiscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance the … of politicians, and by mobilizing citizens through greater participation at the local level. Federalism respects … different cultural and individual traditions among regions, and it emphasizes local diversity. Federalism thus reflects the …

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Validation of the Regional Authority Index

SCHAKEL, ARJAN H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This article validates the Regional Authority Index with seven widely used decentralization indices in the literature. A principal axis analysis reveals a common structure. The major source of disagreement between the Regional Authority Index and the other indices stems from the fact that the...

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