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. -- Federalism ; Local Discretion ; Directive ; Partial Decentralization ; Majority rule …
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I consider a heterogeneous federal system in which policy coordination is desirable but underprovided in the absence of a federal intervention. To improve policy coordination, the federal layer can intervene by imposing bounds on local policies. These federal bounds define a restricted policy...
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The European Union (EU) is not de jure a federation, but after 50 years of institutional evolution it possesses attributes of a federal state. One can conclude that EU is something betweenʺ federation and intergovernmental organization. If we measure something betweenʺ by interval [0, 1],...
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Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...
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the idea of local and regional autonomy, subsidiarity should be applied across EU. -- federalization ; regions …
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In this paper, we build upon earlier research on second order devolution and subsidiarity in state-local functions and … that incorporate major state-local service outcomes as dependent variables. We find that a state’s embrace of subsidiarity …
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We empirically analyze the determinants of the fiscal decentralization in the European Union. Our approach consists on … on the fiscal decentralization by quantiles. Specifically, while GDP per capita or corruption are not significant in a … decentralization. And other variables as population, density or inequality do not have neither the same impact among quantiles …
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The concept of fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups, such as national representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of...
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