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How close is your government to its people? : worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization
Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - 2013
that, for comparative purposes, it measures government decision making at the local level rather than at the sub … overall ranking of countries on the closeness of their government to the people. The resulting index is associated with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774900
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817112
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Finding your right (or left) partner to merge
Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - 2015
We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using an extensive data set on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483691
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Samuelson meets federalism : local production of a national public good
Brueckner, Jan K.; Craig, Steven G.; Lee, Kangoh - 2019
This paper studies an overlooked phenomenon in the provision of public goods: local produc-tion of a national public good, such as the manufacture of fighter planes (which contribute to national defense) in many different jurisdictions across the country. Because local production of the national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029156
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Finding your right (or left) partner to merge
Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - 2015
We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using data on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503875
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O futuro do Estado no Brasil e seus impactos na sociedade : questões para o desenvolvimento até 2035
Lima, Raphael Camargo; Curado, Maurício Pinheiro Fleury - 2017
In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and State agendas. Hence, the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713812
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Costa Rica : restoring fiscal sustainability and setting the basis for a more growthfriendly and inclusive fiscal policy
Araújo, Sónia; Guichard, Stéphanie - 2018
increases in Latin America over the last decade. Government attempts to restore fiscal health have been undermined by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914250
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The Soviet constitution problem in comparative corporate law : testing the proposition that European corporate law is more stockholder-focused than U.S. corporate law
Strine, Leo E. - 2015
This article addresses the proposition advanced by academic and press commentators that European corporation law promotes stockholder welfare better than its U.S. counterpart. Those who express that view often point to the stronger rights afforded to stockholders under the laws of the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496242
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Citizen-centric governance indicators : measuring and monitoring governance by listening to the people and not the interest groups
Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - 2009
in government ; government oversight ; public opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841008
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Do parties matter? : estimating the effect of political power in multi-party systems
Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of political power on tax policies in municipal councils under a proportional election system. The main challenge in estimating the causal effect of parties on policy is to isolate the effect of power from underlying voter preferences and the selection effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579229