The growing research on fiscal and political federalism in economics (as well as rational choice political science …

dynamics of the Russian federalism and decentralization in other post-Soviet states. Furthermore, it looks at the evolution of …The paper provides a brief survey of the key contributions to the studies of the federalism and regionalism in …

decentralization observed in the CIS region over the last two decades and develops a simple framework explaining the differences …

former Soviet Union: Russian federalism and post-Soviet regional integration. In spite of common origins, random selections …-Soviet integration and Russian federalism: formal vs. informal nature of political property rights of elites; impact of economic …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country and a variety of indicators. It finds no robust correlation between different decentralization …

equalisation. In this paper we discuss strategic tax auditing and collection from the perspective of fiscal federalism and test for …

second part deals with sub-regional aspects of decentralization. The work applies both the traditional econometrics of panel …