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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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Contractual federalism and strategy-proof coordination
Loeper, Antoine - 2008
This paper takes a mechanism design approach to federalism and assumes that local preferences are the private … information of local jurisdictions. Contractual federalism is defined as a strategy-proof contract among the members of the … coalition manipulations are equivalent to voting rules on uniform policies. -- Federalism ; Asymmetric Information ; Strategy …
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How much of federalism in the European Union
Turnovec, František - 2009
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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Does Voluntary Participation Undermine the Coase Theorem?
Dixit, Avinash; Olson, Mancur - 2010
The Coase Theorem states that costless enforcement of voluntary agreements yields efficient outcomes. We argue that previous treatments fail to recognize the full meaning of voluntariness: it requires a two-stage game; a non-cooperative participation decision, followed by Coaseian bargaining only...
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Can courts make federalism work? : a game theory approach to court-induced compliance and defection in federal systems
Sala, Gemma - In: Economies : open access journal 2 (2014) 4, pp. 193-217
Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend … may not enforce compliance with federalism. It argues that politicians of either level of government anticipate the …
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Contagion of populist extremism
Kishishita, Daiki; Yamagishi, Atsushi - 2020
To explore the propagation of undesirable policies in a form of populist extremism, we construct a social learning model featuring agency problems. Politicians in different countries sequentially implement a policy. Voters learn the incumbent politician's type and the desirable policy by...
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The right type of legislator : a theory of taxation and representation
Mattozzi, Andrea; Snowberg, Erik - In: Journal of public economics 159 (2018), pp. 54-65
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The right type of legislator : a theory of taxation and representation
Mattozzi, Andrea; Snowberg, Erik - 2015
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Fairness and squareness: fair decision making rules in the EU council?
Turnovec, František (contributor) - 2009
The concept of fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups, such as national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790289
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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game
Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...
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