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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization – A Cross-Country Assessment [PDF]
This paper is based on the conjecture that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details.
Lorenz Blume, Stefan Voigt
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Federalism: A Comprehensive Review of Its Evolution, Typologies, and Contemporary Issues
EncyclopediaThis study is intended to conduct a comprehensive review of federalism. This study starts from the institutional aspect and analyzes how federalism, as a compound structure, divides power between the central and local governments.
Lingkai Kong
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
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The Origins of Holding-Together Federalism: Nepal, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2017 Theories on the origin of federalism generally only apply to coming-together federalism. In Asia, some states introduced federalism following decolonization to hold together multiethnic communities, but others centralized and pursued a nation-building ...
Breen, Michael G., Michael G Breen
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Unending dialectical politics of identity in Ethiopia [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
F1000ResearchBackground Identity politics is one of political terminology which is subjected to continuous and increasingly contested conceptualization and use. Moreover, identity exists in all social level starting for individual to international level, which makes ...
Tefera Assefa
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis +2 more
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Le fédéralisme en tant que remède à l’état de guerre : l’exemple des États-Unis
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2008 Two main aspects of American federalism are examined: firstly, while American federalism sprang from a particularly realistic concern for inter-state relations, it led to the emergence of an intrinsically idealistic project which consisted in taking an ...
Jean-Marie Ruiz
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article retraces the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of mineral rights. Mineral rights were assumed in the Commission's terms of reference and expected by many Aboriginal people. Why, then, were they not recommended by the Commission?
Laura Rademaker
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