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Towards a European constitution: fiscal federalism and the allocation of economic competences
Stehn, Jürgen - 2002
allocation of econornic conipetences that can serve as an overall. guideline for a European constitution. …
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Leitlinien einer ökonomischen Verfassung für Europa
Stehn, Jürgen - In: Die Weltwirtschaft (2002) 3, pp. 300-315
Auf dem Gipfel in Laeken im Dezember 2001 hat der Europäische Rat die Einrichtung eines Europäischen Konvents beschlossen, der sich mit Zukunftsfragen der Europäischen Union (EU) beschäftigen und Leitlinien für die nächste intergouvermentale Konferenz erarbeiten soll. Im Mittelpunkt der...
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Mapping constitutionally safeguarded judicial independence: A global survey
Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010
explicitly anchoring JI in the constitution: countries belonging to the common law tradition are less likely to implement JI in … whether JI is included in the constitution: societies experiencing a high level of religious fractionalization are not only … lower likelihood of JI being mentioned in the constitution. …
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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010
interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a … democracy. Moreover, new social rights have been anchored in the constitution and a plurinational state is supposed to be … constructed. The article raises the question of whether the new constitution will change the relations between state and civil …
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Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador
Barrera, Anna - 2011
Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...
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Why Brennan and Buchanan are wrong (after all)
Apolte, Thomas - 2007
In their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power and the tendency of this power to be abused. It was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298416
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An enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment, and dissolution of states and governmental units
Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-32, pp. 1-38
The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271861
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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical 'Tullock Challenges'. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274770
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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical Tullock Challenges. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316889