Journal ArticleDOI
The Political Science of Federalism
TLDR
In this paper, the authority boundaries are studied as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to achieve social goals; as problems in positive political theory, because the authority distribution creates competitive interests; and as an institutional design problem, where the boundaries are maintained by safeguards.Abstract:
This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to achieve social goals; (b) as problems in positive political theory, because the authority distribution creates competitive interests; (c) as an institutional design problem, where the boundaries are maintained by safeguards; and (d) as a complex adaptive system, where the boundaries evolve in response to the interaction of diverse agents. The article concludes with a suggestion that as dynamic models of constitutional evolution develop, reflecting the bottom-up process and the responsiveness to the cultural community, federal constitutional design may transform from optimality studies to feasibility studies.read more
Citations
More filters
The Price for Federalism
TL;DR: The price of federalism is the complexity of the federal system as discussed by the authors, which results in governmental interconnections that are too complex, creates overlapping responsibilities, perpetuates social inequalities, and stifles economic growth.
Journal ArticleDOI
How do environmental regulation and environmental decentralization affect green total factor energy efficiency: Evidence from China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces for the period 2005-2016 to investigate the relationship between environmental regulation and China's total factor energy efficiency (hereafter GTFEE).
Journal ArticleDOI
The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown how to find a user's guide to operating a product on the web. But it is not easy to find the manual that is suitable for us.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India and the United States
TL;DR: Chhibber and Kollman as mentioned in this paper studied the formation of national party systems and how party systems change over time with respect to their extent of nationalization and in relation to the migration of political authority to the center or from the center to states, provinces, or regions.
Journal ArticleDOI
States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for Covid-19.
TL;DR: There were systematic variations in the governors' decisions, and these variations were embedded in a subtle but growing pattern of differences among the states in a host of policy areas, ranging from decisions about embracing the Affordable Care Act to improving their infrastructure.
References
More filters
Book
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Book ChapterDOI
The use of knowledge in society
TL;DR: In this paper, it was pointed out that many of the current disputes with regard to both economic theory and economic policy have their common origin, it seems to me, in a misconception about the nature of the economic problem of society.
Related Papers (5)
Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective
Krister Andersson,Elinor Ostrom +1 more