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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012
In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...
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Federalism, Freedom of Movement, and Fiscal Equalization
Traub, Stefan - 2003
In this paper, we take up the question why a group of sovereign countries is willing to form a federation even if residents of the high-income region suspect potential immigrants to be net beneficiaries of the tax and transfer system. We argue that income uncertainty alone cannot satisfactorily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296313
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Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007
This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that tuition fees fully crowd public funds under centralization and quality of university education does not improve....
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The dynamics of reform of India's federal system
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper analyzes the process of reform of India's federal system, with a focus on fiscal federalism. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322727
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Revisiting the decentralization theorem: on the role of externalities
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2007
The "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264235
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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...
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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in … the number of regions: The complementary question what happens to the gains of federalism when increasing the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270385
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Federalism and accountability with distorted election choices
Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2009
This study analyzes the interaction between distorted election choices and the architecture of government with a focus on the implications for the accountability of politicians. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, it is shown that centralization is likely to result in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271479
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271861
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Federalism and accountability with distorted election choices
Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2009
Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, this study shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274383