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During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...
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Die vielfältigen Formen der europäischen Mehrebenenverwaltung zeigen eine zunehmende "Zerfaserung" des Staates durch Funktionsverlagerungen auf die europäische Ebene, auf transnational wirkende andere Mitgliedstaaten und auf die Ebene gesellschaftlicher Selbstorganisation. Zugleich sind neue...
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It is well known that proposers have an advantage in the canonical model of bargaining in legislatures: proposers are sure of being part of the coalition that forms, and, conditional on being in a coalition, a player receives more as a proposer than as a coalition partner. In this paper I show...
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The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...
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This paper presents empirical evidence of a positive effect of council size on government spending using a data set of 2,056 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria over a period of 21 years. We apply a regression discontinuity design to avoid an endogeneity bias. In particular, we exploit...
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Der Jurist ist im Umgang mit Unsicherheit vor besondere Schwierigkeiten gestellt: Sein Instrumentarium ist weitgehend darauf ausgerichtet, mit statischen Situationen aufgrund einer präzisen Entscheidungsregel umzugehen. Unsicherheit und Risiko aber erlauben zunächst keine Präzision und keine...
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In this paper it is argued that the slowness of the legislativesystem implies pre-commitment of legislation for at least the periodit takes to change a law. A simple model illustrates the benefit ofthis pre-commitment.
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We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the opposing lobby. Hence, a larger lobby size...
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Am 21. April 2023 wurde das Gesetz zum Neustart der Digitalisierung der Energiewende (GNDEW), eingebracht von den Fraktionen Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, der SPD sowie der FDP und federführend entwickelt vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), vom Bundestag, verabschiedet....
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