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Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2004) 1, pp. 1312-1312

The draft treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union states that each member state may withdraw from the European Union following its own constitutional requirements. We argue that such a rule could lead into an increased use of threat of withdrawal to extract concessions in...

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You Can Go Your Own Way: Explaining Partisan Support for Independence

Willems, Tim - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This paper analyzes secessions through the lens of representative democratic institutions and considers the incentives of partisan political parties to support independence movements. It points out that, if anything, separatists should expect to receive support from exactly the "unlike-minded"...

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Political Bargaining in a Federation: Buchanan meets Coase

Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In recent decades, the issues of federalism and political integration have gained prominence in public debate as well … as in the academic realm. A frequently made point is that allowing free secession may protect the minority’s interests … unattractive for the minority region. In contrast, limiting the secession possibilities by requiring the consent of a majority of …

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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Foederalismus

Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2009

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the …. Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in the number of regions: Measured as the … difference of the shares of the sum of the highest number of outvoted to the national population between federalism and …

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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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Should different people have different governments?

Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

The classic theory of fiscal federalism suggests that different people should have different governments. Yet, separate …

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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012

In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...

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Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Performance in the Argentine Provinces

Tommasi, Mariano; Jones, Mark P.; Sanguinetti, Pablo - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 1997

We posit that the fiscal behavior of Argentine provinces is determined by a common pool game at two levels: within each province, and across political units. In the latter game, the national government has a greater incentive than the provincial governments to internalize the negative...

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Intertwined Federalism: Accountability Problems under Partial Decentralization

Joanis, Marcelin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels of government are involved in public good provision...

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