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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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Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism
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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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Safe seats, marginal seats, and party platforms: the logic of platform differentiation*
TL;DR: The authors analyzes a spatial model of two-party competition where parties are not monolithic decision makers but collections of self-motivated officeholders, and the main result is that in a stable equilibrium party platforms do not converge to the same point.
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Optimal Regional Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information
Massimo Bordignon,Massimo Bordignon,Paolo Manasse,Paolo Manasse,Guido Tabellini,Guido Tabellini +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, 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.