This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …

federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …

scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to … decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a unitary government by … federalism's valued outcomes. Third, federalism needs democracy; there is no evidence that adding policy decentralization or …