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traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
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traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523838
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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if, indeed, it does matter, and for whom it might matter are the types of questions this paper explores. Federalism is … turns out that the pro-liberty quality of federalism is a possible but not a necessary feature of federalism. This essay … explores this two-edged quality of federalism to discern more clearly the relation between federalism and liberty …
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This abstract is taken from an article entitled quot;'A Light Unto the Nations' - The New British Federalism, the … our own federalism through examination of another, the Article demonstrates that this new and unique federalism provides …
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It is common to think of federalism as a governmental arrangement that entails competition among governments. Thinking … governments. A genuinely competitive federalism must thus be designed in such a fashion as to mirror the workings of a … competitive federalism requires …
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We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by ?) finds that small and overrepresented states get significantly larger shares of...
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We propose a theory of tax centralization in politico-economic equilibrium. Taxation has dynamic general equilibrium implications which are rationally internalized at the federal, but not at the regional level. The political support for taxation therefore differs across levels of government....
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We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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Using data on federal highway grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, this paper investigates several questions regarding the political economy of highway funding. We investigate the period 1994 - 2008 and examine whether political alignment and political...
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