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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Federalism, decentralisation and corruption [PDF]
We investigate the empirical relationship between decentralisation and corruption. Using a newly assembled dataset containing data for up to 174 countries, we revisit the empirical evidence and seek to explain some of the inconsistent results that exist ...
Freille, Sebastian +2 more
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To federate or not to federate, that is the query
The adjective “federated” is widely used in computer science, yet with diverging meanings that often lead toconfusion, especially in interdisciplinary discussions, collaborative authorship or when building research consortia.Originally rooted in political theory, federation denotes cooperation between autonomous entities withoutloss of sovereignty ...
Waagmeester, Andra +4 more
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National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic‐ and language‐based nationalism, thus being linked to negative views. We examine citizens who identify with both a minority nation and a nation state.
Victoria Finn +2 more
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Fiscal Federalism and Economic Growth [PDF]
This paper uses an endogenous-growth model with overlapping generations to explore the connection between fiscal federalism and economic growth. The analysis shows that federalism, which allows public-good levels to be tailored to suit the differing ...
Jan K. Brueckner
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Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
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Incentives to provide local public goods: fiscal federalism, Russian style [PDF]
Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
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Formal and real fiscal federalism in Argentina [PDF]
, 2003 In this note we describe, on the one hand, the formal institutional structure of the Argentine fiscal federalism. Then, on the other hand, we show how fiscal federalism really works in Argentina.
Besfamille , Martin, Sanguinetti, Pablo
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Federalism, Nigerian Federal Constitution and the Practice of Federalism: An Appraisal
Beijing Law Review, 2017 In 1954, the Nigerian founding fathers opted for a federal system of government despite its inherent challenges in a pluralistic society. This research work x-rayed federalism in Nigeria as the only basis upon which Nigeria can remain united despite its diversity and peculiar conditions in which the different tribal groups live in and proffers ...
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Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle +2 more
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