Fiscal federalism and redistributive politics
TL;DR: 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.
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01 Jan 2002
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.
Abstract: List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I: VETO PLAYERS THEORY 17 One: Individual Veto Players 19 Two: Collective Veto Players 38 PART II: VETO PLAYERS AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS 65 Three: Regimes: Nondemocratic, Presidential, and Parliamentary 67 Four: Governments and Parliaments 91 Five: Referendums 116 Six: Federalism, Bicameralism, and Qualified Majorities 136 PART III: POLICY EFFECTS OF VETO PLAYERS 161 Seven: Legislation 165 Eight: Macroeconomic Policies 187 PART IV: SYSTEMIC EFFECTS OF VETO PLAYERS 207 Nine: Government Stability 209 Ten: Judiciary and Bureaucracies 222 Eleven: Veto Players Analysis of European Union Institutions 248 Conclusion 283 Bibliography 291 Index 309
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...Riker (1975: 144) has made the argument that there should be no policy differences between federal and unitary countries, while Rose-Ackerman (1981) and Dixit and Londregan (1998) provide arguments why legislation will be different in these two types of states....
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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.
Abstract: EU regional policy is an investment policy. It supports job creation, competitiveness, economic growth, improved quality of life and sustainable development. These investments support the delivery of the Europe 2020 strategy. The present paper analysis two strategically different options of EU regional policy: place-neutral versus place-based policies for economic development. Our results suggest that in many EU regions the place-neutral policies may no be the best policy response to facing new challenges posed by deeper economic integration and globalisation.
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01 Jul 2007
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.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The political process 3. Administrative efficiency 4. Competition among governments 5. Fiscal policy and redistribution 6. Fiscal coordination and incentives 7. Citizens and government 8. Checks, balances, and freedom 9. Acquiring and using knowledge 10. Ethnic conflict and secession 11. Data to the rescue? 12. Conclusion: rethinking decentralization.
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26 Dec 2005TL;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.
Abstract: 1. Introduction and overview 2. Promise and peril: intellectual history 3. Sovereignty and commitment 4. The power of the purse: intergovernmental grants and fiscal discipline 5. Disease or cure? Political parties and fiscal discipline 6. An approach to comparative case studies 7. Fiscal federalism and bailouts in postwar Germany 8. The crisis of fiscal federalism in Brazil 9. The challenge of reform in federations 10. The origins of subnational sovereignty 11. Conclusions.
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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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...The results obtained from estimating equation (13) are in column (2) of table 7....
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...Our findings for equations (12) and (13) are detailed in, respectively, columns labeled (1) and (2) of table 8....
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...The aligned swing effect makes, at a minimum, one prediction regarding the parameters of equations (12) and (13): δ1 > 0 (that is, group-one aligned stateyears receive larger central grants than group-three aligned state-years)....
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...+γ2ModSwDs,t−1)× (1−Als,t−1) + β1Als,t−1 + β2MPs,t−1 + θZst + ωt + st(13)...
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...To ensure that our column (2) results are not spurious, we re-estimate equation (13) after replacing the common time trend with year dummies....
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