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Fiscal federalism and redistributive politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
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In this article, the interaction between redistributive politics at central and local levels in a federal system, and characterize the factors influencing success in redistributeive politics in both federal and unitary systems.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1998-05-01. It has received 235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fiscal federalism & Unitary state.read more
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Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
TL;DR: In this paper, Veto players analysis of European Union Institutions is presented, focusing on the role of individual veto players and collective players in the analysis of the institutions of the European Union.
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An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy A place-based approach to meeting European Union challenges and expectations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed two strategically different options of EU regional policy: place-neutral versus place-based policies for economic development and found that in many EU regions, the placeneutral policies may not be the best policy response to facing new challenges posed by deeper economic integration and globalisation.
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The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a decentralization approach based on checks, balances, and freedom, where data to the rescue is used to solve the problem of ethnic conflict and secession.
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Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism
TL;DR: The power of the purse: intergovernmental grants and fiscal discipline as mentioned in this paper, the origins of subnational sovereignty, and the challenges of reform in federations are discussed in detail in this paper.
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Electoral goals and center-state transfers: A Theoretical model and empirical evidence from India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations.
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Federal Fiscal Constitutions: Risk Sharing and Redistribution
Torsten Persson,Guido Tabellini +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the political and economic determinants of regional public transfers and how such transfers are shaped by alternative fiscal constitutions, where a constitution is an allocation of fiscal instruments across different levels of governments plus a procedure for the collective choice of these instruments.
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Ideology, Tactics, and Efficiency in Redistributive Politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the electoral politics of redistribution when voters and parties care about inequality in addition to their private concerns for consumption and votes, respectively, and show that redistributive politics favors middle classes at the expense of both rich and poor.
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The Optimal Provision of Public Goods in a System of Local Government
TL;DR: The concept of government as a single-centered decision-making unit has been criticised by as discussed by the authors, who argued that government is a fragmented, multicentered decisionmaking sector in which decisions of each governmental unit affect and are affected by the decisions of others.
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Optimal Regional Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the optimal redistribution among two different regions in a federal state in the presence of moral hazard and adverse selection, and show that tax evasion occurs only in the poor region, even though the possibility of lax tax enforcement benefits the rich and harms the poor regions.
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A political theory of federalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether practical federal arrangements can sufficiently insulate governmental decisions at all levels to maintain a stable and credible decentralized political structure in multi-ethnic nations such as the United States and Australia.