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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …
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of "coordinated decentralization." The experience of United States labor federalism points to several institutional …
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In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...
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Under most U.S. environmental regulations, the federal government shares responsibility with the states by authorizing them to implement and enforce federal policies. Authorization provides states with considerable discretion over the effects of regulation and is perhaps the most significant...
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euro area than in the US, and though the US faces serious state-level fiscal crises. A higher level of fiscal federalism …
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traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
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traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
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We propose a theory of tax centralization in politico-economic equilibrium. Taxation has dynamic general equilibrium implications which are rationally internalized at the federal, but not at the regional level. The political support for taxation therefore differs across levels of government....
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Concurrent taxation is a feature of many federal systems. As a consequence of this fact, the tax policy of one level of government affects the tax base of the other. This paper carries out a theoretical analysis of the interdependent tax-setting decisions of federal and regional governments,...
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This note shows that the aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, was close to zero in 2009. While the Federal government stimulus prevented a net decline in aggregate fiscal expenditure, it did not...
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