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Erbsen, Allan - 2009

This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of … federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while … on state citizenship. This Article moves beyond the piecemeal approach by identifying facets of horizontal federalism …

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"Kosten der Kleinheit" und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz

Kellermann, Kersten (contributor) - 2007

This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with...

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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...

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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...

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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

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Bringing power to the people or the well-connected? : eEvidence from Ethiopia on the gendered effects of decentralizing service delivery

Kosec, Katrina; Song, Jie; Zhao, Hongdi - 2020

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Reciprocal State and Local Airport Spending Spillovers and Symmetric Responses to Cuts and Increases in Federal Airport Grants

Cohen, Jeffrey - 2017

How states and localities react to federal airport grant cuts is a question of increasing importance, especially in light of recent congressional funding reauthorization debates. This study finds that states and localities behave in the way public finance theory predicts. The magnitude of an...

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Was Pandemic Fiscal Relief Effective Fiscal Stimulus? Evidence from Aid to State and Local Governments

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...

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COP28 and environmental federalism : empirical evidence from an emerging economy, India

Chakraborty, Lekha; Kaur, Amandeep; Mohanty, Ranjan Kumar; … - 2024

climate change commitments in India. Within the analytical framework of environmental federalism, we tested the evidence for …

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralisation on Education and Other Types of Spending

Busemeyer, Marius R. - 2008

Scholars have argued about the impact of fiscal decentralisation on public spending for a long time without coming to any firm theoretical and empirical conclusions. In contrast to earlier studies, this paper looks at the impact of fiscal decentralisation across different types of spending. It...

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