Much scholarly writing on states and state boundaries assumes that these form or at least condition the bounds of identity. The ‘institutionalisation’ process is said to be one where the boundaries of the state become the boundaries of everyday life and imagined community. In an...

We consider a model of the "world" with several regions that may create a unified entity or be partitioned into several unions (countries). The regions have distinct preferences over policies chosen in the country to which they belong and equally share the cost of public policies. It is known...