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:...

Although fiscal policies of central governments sometimes provide modest insurance against regional income shocks, this paper shows that procyclical fiscal policy among provincial governments can easily overwhelm these stabilizing effects. We examine the cyclicality of budget items among...

What determines the relative strength of central and regional governments? Why do centers engage in more or less geographically based economic redistribution? And why do some centers redistribute from urban to rural areas while others do the opposite? This research answers these questions with...

Most researchers interested in the relationship between global markets and public policy focus on advanced industrial democracies. In contrast, we examine competing hypotheses as to globalization's effect on governments by expanding the scope of the discussion to include developing nations. More...