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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Foederalismus
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2009
The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the …. Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in the number of regions: Measured as the … difference of the shares of the sum of the highest number of outvoted to the national population between federalism and …
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Intertwined Federalism: Accountability Problems under Partial Decentralization
Joanis, Marcelin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009
Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels of government are involved in public good provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027209
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Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Performance in the Argentine Provinces
Tommasi, Mariano; Jones, Mark P.; Sanguinetti, Pablo - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 1997
governments to internalize the negative externality of fiscal imprudence. Given relatively strong party discipline, the president … is able to induce governors from his party to internalize a portion of the externality to a greater extent than …
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A comparison of internal and international barriers to trade
BRETON, Albert; SALMON, Pierre - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1999
principle, while in the context of competitive federalism the methods lead to what can be called a proper balancing of benefits …
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Vertical competition in a unitary state
SALMON, Pierre - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1999
The paper is concerned with what Albert Breton, in his theory of competitive federalism has called vertical competition …
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Citizens Should Vote on Secession
Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004
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Civil Conflict, Federalism and Strategic Delegation of Leadership
Jennings, Colin; Roelfsema, Hein - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2008
latter form of externality may arise from the production of "conspicuous" public goods. As a result, decentralized provision …
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Federal Directives, Local Discretion and the Majority Rule
Loeper, Antoine - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2010
We consider a federation in which citizens determine by federal majority rule a discretionary policy space which partially restricts the sovereignty of member states. Citizens first vote on the size of the discretionary space (the degree of local discretion), and then on its location on the...
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The construction of national identities
Almagro, Milena; Andrés-Cerezo, David - In: Theoretical Economics 15 (2020) 2, pp. 763-810
This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....
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The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a political system. Governance and representation problems at the local level cause part of citizens' lack of power and political alienation. Citizens have local power if they can...
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