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Four centuries of fiscal decentralisation in the Netherlands in view of different economic theoretic perspectives
Bos, Frits - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The history of the Netherlands reveals major shifts from centralisation of government tasks towards decentralisation …. Many transformations later the Kingdom of the Netherlands became a big centralised welfare state. Since the 1980s a reverse …
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Luigi Bodio: promoter of the political and high scientific mission of statistics and pioneer of the international statistical cooperation
Cappiello, Antonio - In: RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e … LXVIII (2014) 3-4, pp. 199-205
Luigi Bodio (1840-1920) was an Italian economist and statistician, considered one of the founders of the Italian Statistics. He was one of the 21 founding members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1885, ISI Director-General during the first 20 years (1885-1905) and ISI...
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Social order through constitutional choice: A contractarian proposal
Berggren, Niclas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996
The present paper consists of two closely related parts: one which outlines a normative criterion for evaluating the legitimacy of constitutional change and one which specifies a particular proposal of a constitution. The criterion used stems directly from the "pragmatic" brand of...
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In government we trust: the role of fiscal decentralization
Ligthart, Jenny E.; Oudheusden, Peter van - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
We measure the contribution of fiscal decentralization to trust in government. Using repeated cross-country survey data … model of the government trust and fiscal decentralization nexus. We control for unobserved country characteristics …, macroeconomic determinants, and individual characteristics. Our main finding is that fiscal decentralization increases trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575414
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In Government We Trust : The Role of Fiscal Decentralization
Ligthart, J.E.; van Oudheusden, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
We measure the contribution of fiscal decentralization to trust in government. Using repeated cross-country survey data … model of the government trust and fiscal decentralization nexus. We control for unobserved country characteristics …, macroeconomic determinants, and individual characteristics. Our main finding is that fiscal decentralization increases trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090404
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Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation
Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (2009) 1, pp. 35-58
democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy … social optimum, while decentralization leads to "too little." Three effects of centralization — an "informational externality …
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ASPECTS OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM
POPA, Florina - In: CrossCultural Management Journal (2013) 27, pp. 126-133
financial decentralization, under the European Union standards. Public administration modernization assumes checking and … towards the cohesion of territorial development accomplish.The study presents some particularities of decentralization in the … context of administrative reform, the impulses for decentralization expansion, and, respectively, for development of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700636
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The Institutional Foundations of China’s Reforms and Development
Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
resist reforms, policies, rules and laws. China’s reform trajectories have been shaped by regional decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468688
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ASPECTS OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM
POPA, Florina - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2013) 1, pp. 126-133
financial decentralization, under the European Union standards. Public administration modernization assumes checking and … towards the cohesion of territorial development accomplish.The study presents some particularities of decentralization in the … context of administrative reform, the impulses for decentralization expansion, and, respectively, for development of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079663
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Empleo y carreras laborales en el servicio de Correos de España, 1890-1935
Domenech, Jordi - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2014
This paper studies the organization of the internal labour market of postal services in Spain from 1890 to 1935. The paper discusses the evolution of total employment in relation to postal traffic and average nominal and real wages. The paper then analyses the operation of the internal labour...
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