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We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
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Freedom of movement is one of the great issues of our time. Expanding opportunities for both international and internal … migration can greatly expand freedom and opportunity for hundreds of millions of people. The same goes for expanding freedom of … Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, on which this article draws …
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Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual … would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. That implication is an additional reason to be …
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Democracy and ballot box voting have often been held up as central elements of the American political tradition. Less emphasis has been placed on the centrality of “voting with your feet.” Yet in many ways, it is an even more fundamental and distinctive feature of American politics than...
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This Article is the first to systematically consider the Constitution’s identification, definition, and integration of the physical spaces in which it applies. Knowing how the Constitution addresses a particular problem often requires knowing where the problem arises. Yet despite the...
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libertarian “negative” view of economic freedom, and the more “positive” version advanced by left-liberal political theorists ….Part I focuses on libertarian approaches to economic freedom. It shows that migration restrictions severely restrict the … true both on libertarian views that value such freedom for its own sake, and those that assign value to it for more …
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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 concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …
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This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in three questions: (1) Does the partisan identity of the local mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; (2) Does this partisan...
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the findings can be related to an incumbency externality effect and to the theory of voter preferences for divided …
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economic freedom (i.e., lower government expenditures, lower and more general taxes and more modest regulation) on tolerance in …, positively related to preceding increases in economic freedom, more specifically in the form of more general taxes. We suggest …
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