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Federalism and reductions in the federal budget [PDF]
National Tax Journal, 1996 Assesses two ways (mandates and grants) in which federalist principles affect the budget and deficit at the federal level, the relationship between the federal and local governments, and the assumption of state responsibility for a number of public regulations.
Quigley, John M., Rubinfeld, Daniel L.
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Protecting Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales From American Federalism [PDF]
, 2002 The European Union\u27s ongoing Convention on the Future of Europe must tackle a fundamental issue of federalism: the balance between central authority and Member State autonomy.
Young, Ernest A.
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Mizan Law Review, 2010 This article explores the relationship between federalism and conflict in the light of the experience of the federal experiment in contemporary Ethiopia.
T Regassa
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The Capitol in the Classroom: Implementing the Common Core in an Era of Coercive Federalism [PDF]
, 2016 The increased prevalence of federal mandates and funding initiatives support the existence of coercive federalism. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a notable example of a coercively implemented policy.
Constantine, Molly
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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, 2016 The integration of simulation components into a federated, interoperable simulation environment introduces a large number of engineering challenges. Many of these challenges are technical issues, but there are also several challenges from the project management perspective. For example, when simulation components are provided by different organizations
Huiskamp, W., Berg, T. van den
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has severely impacted the external environment of social service non‐profit organizations (NPOs), resulting in diverse management challenges. Our study investigates how social service NPOs in Austria experienced these challenges and how they developed internal coping mechanisms.
Birgit Grüb‐Martin +2 more
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Effects of Federalism on Social Policies in a Comparative Perspective: Argentina and Brazil
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2020 This article analyzes the relationship between federative institutions and social policies in the new constitutional order in Argentina and Brazil. It draws on literature and data to describe two characteristics of federalism in both countries and relate
Márcia Miranda Soares +1 more
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