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How to Tame Two Leviathans? Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure in a Federation
Galletta, Sergio - 2016
democracy both for state (cantons) and local governments (municipalities) in Switzerland. Considering 119 municipalities …We explore how the presence of direct democracy across hierarchical levels of government in a federation affects the … varies with lower-level direct democracy. Empirically, we exploit the large institutional variation in the degree of direct …
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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure
Galletta, Sergio - 2012
We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098336
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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 … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289639
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How to tame two Leviathans?: revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure in a federation
Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 82-93
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The Impact of Within-Party and Between-Party Ideological Dispersion on Fiscal Outcomes : Evidence from Swiss Cantonal Parliaments
Bjedov, Tjasa; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry - 2018
party members that were candidates to federal elections in Switzerland …
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Who contributes? : a strategic approach to a European immigration policy
Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-16
Who pays for immigration control? According to the Lisbon Treaty the cost of enforcing the European border against illegal immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is vague with respect to the “appropriate measures” to adopt in order to distribute the...
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Reassignment and the power to tax in a federal state : Canada, 1867-2024
Winer, Stanley L. - 2025 - Revised, February 4, 2025
Although reassignment of policy instruments among governments in many federations is a recurring event, there is no widely accepted, positive model of the phenomenon. This stands in contrast to the well established body of work on the normative theory of the efficient federal assignment. In this...
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How Sticky are Local Expenditures in Italy? Assessing the Relevance of the 'Flypaper Effect' Through Municipal Data
Gennari, Elena - 2012
An extensive literature analyses the impact of upper-tier transfers on the spending behaviour of lower level governments. According to the median voter framework, a transfer from the centre should act as a lump sum grant to residents and thus be spent by jurisdictions in the same proportion as...
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How political, spatial, and administrative changes shape the local level : evidence from municipalities
Dörr, Luisa - 2022
Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342684
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The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a …
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