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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012

In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...

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Federal directives, local discretion and the majority rule

Loeper, Antoine - 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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Citizens should vote on secession

Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The draft treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union states that each member state may withdraw from the European Union following its own constitutional requirements. We argue that such a rule could lead into an increased use of threat of withdrawal to extract concessions in...

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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus

Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in … the number of regions: The complementary question what happens to the gains of federalism when increasing the number 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 betweenʺ federation and intergovernmental organization. If we measure something betweenʺ by interval [0, 1],...

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Federal directives, local discretion and the majority rule

Loeper, Antoine - 2010 - This version: December 2010

. -- Federalism ; Local Discretion ; Directive ; Partial Decentralization ; Majority rule …

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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization

Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011

decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …

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How to tame two Leviathans? : revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure

Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario - 2012

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub-central governments. In so doing we revisit previous research on the effect of direct democratic institution on public policies. Particularly, the effect of upper-level (state)...

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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance : theory and evidence from US states

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012

. -- Federalism ; accountability ; multilevel governance ; party cues …

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Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada

Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two levels of government are involved in the provision of a...

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