question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … researchers have argued that federalism could play a central role in development. We agree, but with an important caveat. We … believe the experience of Russia indicates that another ingredient is crucial, namely political centralization …

essay reviews three alternative models of subsidiarity -- decentralized federalism, centralized federalism, and democratic … federalism -- and argues the current European Economic Community has evolved from decentralized to centralized to a fully …

We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba …

pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the …

a strong association between pre-colonial centralization and contemporary comparative development both across and within … countries. We also document that the strong link between pre-colonial political centralization and regional development -as …

attendance. In particular, the common perception that centralization of public school finance will necessarily lead to greater … centralization involves an extreme equalization of the kind observed in California. Furthermore, if centralization occurs through … schools in centralizing states imply that general public school quality does not drop as a result of such centralization …

In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross … the importance of high population density, inter-state warfare and trade as factors leading to political centralization …. We find that while in the whole world sample these factors are indeed positively correlated with political centralization …