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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure
Galletta, Sergio - 2012
We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098336
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How to Tame Two Leviathans? Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure in a Federation
Galletta, Sergio - 2016
democracy both for state (cantons) and local governments (municipalities) in Switzerland. Considering 119 municipalities …We explore how the presence of direct democracy across hierarchical levels of government in a federation affects the … varies with lower-level direct democracy. Empirically, we exploit the large institutional variation in the degree of direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003014
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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 … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289639
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How to tame two Leviathans?: revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure in a federation
Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 82-93
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535524
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Coordination and Decentralisation of Rules for Fiscal Behaviour in a Federal Structure : The Case of the Swiss Cantons
Soguel, Nils C. - 2006
The coordination of fiscal policies between states or municipalities collides with their individual spending and taxing power. When independently adopted, budget rules can potentially endanger the overall need for macroeconomic stabilisation. Utilising the example of the Swiss cantons, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778988
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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2014
Formal fiscal rules have been introduced in many countries throughout the world. While most studies focus on intra-jurisdictional effects of fiscal rules, vertical impacts on the finances of other levels of governments have yet to be explored thoroughly. The paper investigates the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424734
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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2016
Formal fiscal rules have been introduced in many countries throughout the world. While most studies focus on the intra-jurisdictional effects of fiscal rules, vertical effects on the finances of other levels of government have yet to be explored thoroughly. This paper investigates the influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410014
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The Impact of Within-Party and Between-Party Ideological Dispersion on Fiscal Outcomes : Evidence from Swiss Cantonal Parliaments
Bjedov, Tjasa; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry - 2018
party members that were candidates to federal elections in Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138768
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The indirect effects of direct democracy : local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - 2014
excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local … towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To address this issue I use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229890
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Growth Effects of Public Expenditure on the State and Local Level : Evidence from a Sample of Rich Governments
Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2005
full sample of state and local governments from Switzerland over the 1981-2001 period. The general finding is a fairly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067044