present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …

minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization’ and ‘centralization’ — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision making controls the degree of decentralization …

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 …

This article presents the conclusions of the project Why Centralization and Decentralization in Federations?, which … analyzed dynamic decentralization in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Switzerland, and the United States over their entire … life span. It highlights six main conclusions. First, dynamic decentralization is complex and multidimensional; it cannot …

This article develops a conceptual, methodological, and theoretical framework for analyzing dynamic decentralization in … decentralization and describes the seven-point coding scheme we employed to measure it across twenty-two policy areas and five fiscal … decentralization and discusses its five main properties: direction, magnitude, tempo, form, and instruments. Drawing from several …