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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 …
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We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...
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The implicit idea underlying theories of fiscal federalism is that fiscal decentralization can change the composition … of government expenditure. That is, regardless of whether decentralization enables governments to more readily reflect … decentralization with respect to allocative efficiency by examining the relationship between fiscal decentralization and expenditure …
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Hungary is one of the worst-hit countries of the current financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. The deteriorating economic performance of the country is, however, not a recent phenomenon. A relatively high ratio of redistribution, a high and persistent public deficit and accelerated...
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This article assesses the current and likely impact of the Supreme Court's federalism cases on federal environmental … regulation. As a result of this assessment, the article seeks to make four points: (1) Thus far, the Supreme Court's federalism … the federalism cases makes it likely that the Supreme Court will revisit the constitutional limitations on the Spending …
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How states and localities react to federal airport grant cuts is a question of increasing importance, especially in light of recent congressional funding reauthorization debates. This study finds that states and localities behave in the way public finance theory predicts. The magnitude of an...
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climate change commitments in India. Within the analytical framework of environmental federalism, we tested the evidence for …
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This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with...
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