Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

American “we-do-federalism-right” triumphalism. In the United States, as in Europe, subordinate governments are beset by … governments. That commitment was once the glory of American federalism. Over the past decade, however, the no-bailout commitment … has effectively collapsed. Its demise entails fundamental changes in American federalism, none of them encouraging. After …

The reform of fiscal federalism in Germany enacted in 2006 has focussed on separating the joint legislation process … between the federal government and the States (Laender). The German commission on the reform of federalism is now disputing …

The paper reconsiders the theory of fiscal federalism in a framework inspired by property-rights theory. We set up a …

This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing … framed in terms of notice, its origin, as well as the Court's rationale surrounding it, reveal that it is a federalism policy … beneficiaries - often the neediest -without a remedy and state noncompliance unaddressed. Federalism requires balancing federal …

decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …