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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Centralization Under a Majority Rule : A Normative Analysis
Akai, Nobuo; Mikami, Kazuhiko - 2009
In his seminal work on fiscal federalism, Oates (1972) addressed the so-called Decentralization Theorem, which states …
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Democratic Policy Decisions with Decentralized Promises Contingent on Vote Outcome
Lazrak, Ali; Zhang, Jianfeng - 2023
We study pre-vote interactions in a committee that enacts a welfare-improving reform through voting. Committee members use decentralized promises contingent on the reform enactment to influence the vote outcome. Equilibrium promises prevent beneficial coalitional deviations and minimize total...
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Scaling blockchains : can committee-based consensus help?
Benhaim, Alon; Falk, Brett Hemenway; Tsoukalas, Gerry - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 69 (2023) 11, pp. 6525-6539
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Preferences for harmony and minority voting
Fahrenberger, Theresa C.; Gersbach, Hans - In: Mathematical social sciences 63 (2012) 1, pp. 1-13
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Preferential votes and minority representation in open list proportional representation systems
Negri, Margherita - In: Social choice and welfare 50 (2018) 2, pp. 281-303
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Minor candidates as kingmakers
Ishihara, Akifumi; Miura, Shintaro - In: Public choice 170 (2017) 3/4, pp. 253-263
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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270385
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Voting, lobbying, and the decentralization theorem
Lockwood, Benjamin - 2007
This paper revisits the fiscal decentralization theorem, by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …
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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …. -- Federalism ; Decentralization ; Outvoted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831728