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The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision: A Political Economy Approach

Schnellenbach, Jan; Feld, Lars; schaltegger, Christoph - 2007

The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional …. Instead, it is shown that the existence of rent extraction by delegates alone suffices to make cooperative centralisation more … design under representative democracy increase the likelihood of centralisation. Direct democracy may thus be interpreted as …

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Beyond the Centre: Tracing Decentralization's Influence on Time-varying Fiscal Sustainability

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels. Results for 185 countries show that while tax...

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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities (administration, education, health, and...

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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-central governments. In so doing we revisit previous research on the effect of direct democratic institution on public policies. Particularly, the effect of upper-level (state)...

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Direkte Demokratie und Menschenrechte

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2009

There is a basic tension between the principle of democracy and the rule of law. This becomes obvious whenever the Swiss citizens accept an initiative that is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. First, we discuss the traditions behind these two principles before we survey...

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Does the method adopted for distribution of services by amalgamating municipalities affect expenditure after amalgamation? Evidence from Japan

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Miyashita, Tomohisa - 2013

Municipal boundary reform (municipal amalgamation) has been done in many countries in recent years as the result of a push to enlarge the size and coverage of local government units, which in turn is driven mainly by the prospect of economies of scale. However, in a notable body of previous...

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Municipality amalgamation in Japan: A survival analysis of the timings of the amalgamation process

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Miyashita, Tomohisa - 2013

This paper uses survival analysis to examine the time taken to carry out municipality amalgamation in Japan in terms of both forming the amalgamation committee and completing amalgamation. The results show that municipalities that depend on local allocation tax grants as a revenue source, those...

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Ein Länderfinanzausgleich ohne Berlin - Gewinner und Verlierer

Kuntze, Martina - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 3, pp. 170-174

Berlin hat als Empfängerland des Länderfinanzausgleichs regelmäßig mehr als ein Drittel der Ausgleichsmasse erhalten. Am stärksten belastet ist Bayern, das gemeinsam mit Hessen gegen die Struktur des Länderfinanzausgleichs klagen möchte. Die Autorin schlägt vor, Berlin bereits bei der...

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Die Notwendigkeit der Einwohnerwertung

Zimmermann, Horst - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 8, pp. 534-538

In der Klage der Länder Bayern und Hessen vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen den Länderfinanzausgleich spielt die Einwohnergewichtung der Stadtstaaten eine große Rolle. Es lässt sich zeigen, dass diese gerechtfertigt ist, weil die Einwohner von Stadtstaaten - wenn sie dem kommunalen...

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From urban core to wealthy towns: Nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities

Zhao, Bo - 2015

Using a cost-capacity gap framework, this paper is the first study to quantify nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities. In the absence of a Uniform Chart of Accounts for municipalities, the paper uses a newly assembled dataset of multi-year local financial records,...

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