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"Musgravian" externalities, formulated and illustrated by Musgrave in a 1966 paper on "social goods" are seen in this paper as one form of the interactions that occur between the components of a federation. The original formal apparatus is first exposed briefly. In that context, it is then...
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One of the newer suggestions for the design of public economic units refers to Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJs), which are instruments to shape cooperation of jurisdictions, e.g. municipalities.The study clarifies important types of FOCJ. It concentrates on FOCJs where the...
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This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of … federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while … on state citizenship. This Article moves beyond the piecemeal approach by identifying facets of horizontal federalism …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the nature of India's federal system, the reforms that have occurred over the last ten years, and what remains to be done. We begin by briefly describing the key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for center-state...
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present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …
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The focus of this paper is unequal arrangements and special treatment for some units within Indian federalism, namely …. We first explore the conceptual issues - the causes and consequences of asymmetric federalism. Next, we trace the … evolution of Indian federalism and analyze the factors contributing to the asymmetric arrangements in political, administrative …
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This article examines the nature of India's federal system, and recent and potential reforms in its structure and working. We summarize key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for Center-state transfers. These transfers are large, and are the major explicit...
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We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...
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change in policy allows estimation of the impact of altered federalism. By looking at how states reacted to their enhanced … with significantly lower student achievement growth. As a result, this readjustment of federalism to decision making by … lower levels appeared to lower national achievement. The snapshot of federalism impacts here is a lower bound on the effects …
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This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with …
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