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Insights in Global Public Spending
Vafopoulos, Michalis N. - 2013
Governments around the globe are opening up public spending data in order to promote transparency and citizen awareness. However, data openness by itself is not enough to guarantee that the data is consumed efficiently and in meaningful ways. In this work public spending data from seven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082037
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Gobalisation and the future of the welfare state
Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - 2014
The conventional wisdom is that increasing globalisation requires a reduction in the provision of the welfare state among industrialised countries as the distortions resulting from this type of expenditure undermine international competitiveness and the ability of countries to attract and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430559
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A Fiscal Perspective of State Rescaling
Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2008
Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the quot;scale division of labor of the state,quot; including among others, quot;destatization,quot; quot;denationalization,quot; and quot;internationalization.quot; We draw on the literature in public economics to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722958
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A Fiscal Perspective of State Rescaling
Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2010
Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the lsquo;scale division of labour of the state', including among others, lsquo;destatization', lsquo;denationalization' and lsquo;internationalization'. We draw on the literature in public economics to review several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715246
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From Global to Polycentric Climate Governance
Cole, Daniel H. - 2011
Global governance institutions for climate change, such as those established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181444
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Diffusion of COVID-19 Policy Adoption as Global Governance : The Role of Geography, Culture, and Institutions
An, Brian; Porcher, Simon; Tang, Shui Yan - 2023
In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments’ behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262148
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India as Global Security Actor
Schottli, Jivanta - 2020
Thanks to sustained economic growth and key investments in military capabilities, India will face growing demands from … likely to guide India's future behavior will be a mixture of old and new, eastern and western. India's international … explored for its enduring significance. India's relevance as a security actor is assessed in terms of its activities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837014
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Region and nation in India's political transition
Hasan, Zoya - In: Federalism : comparative perspectives from India and …, (pp. 166-208). 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001492805
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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282215
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The future of fiscal federalism
Tanzi, Vito - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003685909