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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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Local government spending and service delivery in Indonesia : the perverse effects of substantial fiscal resources
Lewis, Blane D. - In: Regional studies 51 (2017) 11, pp. 1695-1707
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Decentralization of firms in a country with weak institutions : evidence from Russia
Levina, Irina - 2018
Can decentralization of firms be successful in an environment with weak institutions? Decentralization can do a great …-making and enhancing motivation of employees. However, decentralization is associated with a substantial increase in agency risk … real decentralization for firms that decentralize decision-making to competitively hired professionals and cautious …
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The Visible Hand : The Role of Government in China’S Long-Awaited Industrial Revolution
Wen, Yi - 2019
China is undergoing its long-awaited industrial revolution. There is no shortage of commentary and opinion on this dramatic period, but few have attempted to provide a coherent, in-depth, politicaleconomic framework that explains the fundamental mechanisms behind China’s rapid...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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Modern trends and risks in the development of resource regions of Russia
Il'ina, Irina N.; Leonard, Carol Scott; Pliseckij, … - 2014
tenative, since there remain questions about transparency and soft budget constraints (Plekhanov 2006). We show federalism at … allocations and spending requirements. Supportive of the conclusion in Chebankova (2008), the term adaptive federalism applies to …
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Central governance or subsidiarity : a property-rights approach to federalism
Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001 - Revised: October 2000
The paper reconsiders the theory of fiscal federalism in a framework inspired by property-rights theory. We set up a …
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Federal Refrom II in Germany
Heinz, Dominic - 2010
Recently Germany experienced yet another federal reform shortly after a previous modification to the German federal system. This paper explains agenda setting, negotiations and ratification of this recent federal reform. With regards to the case of the most recent federal reform in Germany the...
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The Unfunded Mandates in Local Governments Financing : Crises Experiences from Estonia
Friedrich, Peter - 2015
In many countries occur problems from unfunded mandates related to a shift of a function by an upper tier of government to lower rank governments without providing the lower one with financial means to perform these functions. The authors define the unfunded mandates and clarify how they relate...
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Fiscal Centralization in Times of Crisis : Evidence from 11 Federal States
Trein, Philipp - 2016
This paper examines centralization of fiscal policies during the financial and economic crisis, from 2007-2012. We use set logic and QCA methodology to trace out configurations of conditions to explain events of centralization of fiscal policymaking in five European and six non-European...
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