, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease … government electoral strength and both expenditure and revenue centralization emerges as negative and non-linear. -- fiscal … decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …

competition. The game is composed of three stages: i) an election is held in the first-mover country and a policymaker is chosen … by majority voting; ii) similarly, an election to choose a policymaker is held in the second-mover country; and iii …

The fields of regulatory federalism and fiscal federalism have developed largely in isolation from each other. Building … on the new scholarship of federalism in the legal academy, this Article seeks to integrate the insights of the two areas … regulatory federalism. One of the most important elements of fiscal federalism, generally unappreciated in legal scholarship, is …