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Decentralization and the fate of minorities

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2003

, decentralization may represent a way of protecting local minority interests. … potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather extreme preferences may win … the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and interregional …

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Decentralization and the fate of minorities

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2003

"extremeʺ type, decentralization may represent a way of protecting local minority interests. … potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather "extremeʺ preferences may … result is that the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and …

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Centralized and decentralized provision of public goods

Feidler, Janos; Staal, Klaas - 2008

We model the trade-off between centralized and decentralized decision making over the provision of local public goods. Centralized decisions are made in a legislature of locally elected representatives, and this creates a conflict of interest between citizens in different jurisdictions. The...

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Fiscal decentralization and centralization under a majority rule: A normative analysis

Akai, Nobuo; Mikami, Kazuhiko - In: Economic systems 30 (2006) 1, pp. 41-55

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Local government fragmentation and the local public sector : a panel data analysis

Goodman, Christopher B. - In: Public finance review : PFR 43 (2015) 1, pp. 82-107

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Public provision and local income tax competition

Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

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The welfare costs of tiebout sorting with true public goods

Hintermann, Beat; Kuhlmey, Florian - 2018

rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …

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The politics of fiscal federalism : building a stronger decentralization theorem

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2020

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Pareto optimal decentralized provision of a public good

Danziger, Leif; Schnytzer, Adi - 1989

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Household mobility and the moderate Leviathan : efficiency, decentralization, and population size

Wrede, Matthias - 1996

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