Intergovernmental Bargaining and Economic Policy in Federations --From Market-Preserving to Market-Distorting Federalism: Divergent Incentives and Economic Reform in Developing Nations --Federalism and the Decentralized Politics of Macroeconomic Policy and Performance --Testing the Model:...

Initiated by interest groups representing the interest of a class of agency clients, structural reform litigation shapes the administration of important policy domains, particularly in the social services. Employing a spatial bargaining model we show that, instead of holding the agency to its...