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Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

competition between new jurisdictions. A new type of federalism based on Functional, Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions FOCJ is …

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Why Brennan and Buchanan are wrong (after all)

Apolte, Thomas - 2007

In their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power and the tendency of this power to be abused. It was...

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An enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment, and dissolution of states and governmental units

Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-32, pp. 1-38

The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...

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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …

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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

direct popular participation and federalism, or introduce random mechanisms. (99 words) …

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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

direct popular participation and federalism, or introduce random mechanisms. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274770

An enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment, and dissolution of states and governmental units

Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299943

Political Economy: Success or Failure?

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - In: Contemporary Economics 6 (2012) 3, pp. 10-21

The Political Economy and Public Choice approaches have promoted the study of interactions between the economy and the polity for over 60 years now. The present paper endeavours to provide a critical discussion of this literature and its achievements. In particular, it begins with the different...

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Tullock Challenges: Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

direct popular participation and federalism, or introduce random mechanisms. …

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The political economy of regional integration projects at borders where rich and poor meet: the role of cross-border shopping and community sorting

Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - 2008

At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...

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