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Federal directives, local discretion and the majority rule

Loeper, Antoine - 2010

local discretion), and then on its location on the policy space (the federal directive). Finally, each state votes on its … sensitive to the preferences of nonmedian voters. Moreover, the degree of local discretion is too limited and insufficiently …

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Federal Directives, Local Discretion and the Majority Rule

Loeper, Antoine - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2010

local discretion), and then on its location on the policy space (the federal directive). Finally, each state votes on its … preferences of nonmedian voters. Moreover, the degree of local discretion is too limited and insufficiently sensitive to the …

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Federal Directives, Local Discretion and the Majority Rule

Loeper, Antoine - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8 (2013) 1, pp. 41-74

I consider a heterogeneous federal system in which policy coordination is desirable but underprovided in the absence of a federal intervention. To improve policy coordination, the federal layer can intervene by imposing bounds on local policies. These federal bounds define a restricted policy...

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