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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288448
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Fairness and squareness: Fair decision making rules in the EU council?
Turnovec, František - 2009
The concept of fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups, such as national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322221
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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 between federation and intergovernmental organization. If we measure something between by interval [0, 1], where 0...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322290