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The institutional and economic foundations of regional proto-federations

Economou, Emmanouil Marios Lazaros; Kyriazis, Nicholas; … - 2013

In the present paper we analyse for the first time as far as we know, the ancient Greek regional proto-federations, of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies...

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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden

Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008

This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby to raise intergovernmental grants to their local government. The model identifies a relationship between council size and grants received. I then study this relationship empirically using the...

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Identifying Strategic Interactions in Swedish Local Income Tax Policies

Edmark, Karin; Ågren, Hanna - 2006

This paper uses data on Swedish local governments to test for strategic interaction in tax setting. We make no a priori assumptions regarding the underlying behaviour of individuals, but instead attempt to test for the presence and type of underlying spatial process. First, we employ the...

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2006

expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to … be larger if they were merged with many other populous municipalities (i.e. facing a large common pool). We use ordinary … least squares and matching on the complete cross section of rural municipalities for the period 1947-1951, fixed effects …

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Efficiency of fairness in voting systems

Turnovec, František - 2009

Fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups is being broadly discussed during last few years. Assuming we know what the fair representation is, there exists a problem of optimal quota: given a fair distribution of voting weights, how to set up voting rule...

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Quota manipulation and fair voting rules in committees

Turnovec, František - 2012

The concept of fairness is being discussed related to the distribution of voting power among different actors of voting. We are using the following, intuitively natural principle of fairness: each unit of resources (shares, seats) should yield the same voting power (influence). Voting power is...

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Fairness and squareness: Fair decision making rules in the EU council?

Turnovec, František - 2009

The concept of fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups, such as national representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of...

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How much of federalism in the European Union

Turnovec, František - 2009

The European Union (EU) is not de jure a federation, but after 50 years of institutional evolution it possesses attributes of a federal state. One can conclude that EU is something between federation and intergovernmental organization. If we measure something between by interval [0, 1], where 0...

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Organising co-existence in cyberspace: Content regulation and privacy compared

Engel, Christoph - 2002

The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...

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The Politics of Federalism in Argentina: Implications for Governance and Accountability

Ardanaz, Martin; Leiras, Marcelo; Tommasi, Mariano - 2012

This paper contributes to an agenda that views the effects of policies and institutional reforms as dependent on the structure of political incentives for national and subnational political actors. The paper studies political incentive structures at the subnational level and the mechanisms...

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