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Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the face of increasingly complex environmental challenges, subnational governments play a critical role in implementing climate policies. This study investigates how intergovernmental interactions—specifically formal authority interactions and informal competitive interactions—shape the adoption of climate policies by Chinese provincial ...
Shiming Zheng, Alex Jingwei He, Yujie He
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Fiscal federalism and regional performance in Russia
Russian Journal of Economics, 2018 Sound regional policies are essential for balanced and sustained economic growth. The interaction of federal and regional policies with cross-regional structural differences affects human and physical capital formation, the business climate, private ...
Gabriel Di Bella +2 more
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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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Fiscal Decentralization in China and India: Competitive, Cooperative or Market Preserving Federalism? [PDF]
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard components of expenditure and revenue assignments and institutions for intergovernmental transfers, as well as the nature of subnational ...
Singh, Nirvikar
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Integration as a Precondition for Enfranchisement? Swiss Public Opinion on Noncitizen Voting Rights
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract In recent decades, as growing numbers of noncitizen residents remain excluded from the electorate, the question of who should be included in the electorate has gained prominence in both political and academic debates. Drawing on theories of integration and immigrant attitudes, I explore whether Swiss voters would consider integration criteria ...
Alyssa M. Taylor
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Introduction. Indian Federalism under One-party Dominance
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalThis essay introduces a collection of articles that explores the idea of federalism and its discontents in contemporary India. It exposes the central concern of the special issue, namely, why what might be considered federal values are being contested in
Kalaiyarasan A., Louise Tillin
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Fiscal Federalism and Economic Performance: Evidence from Swiss Cantons [PDF]
The advantages and disadvantages of fiscal federalism are widely discussed in economics and political science. While some authors argue that federalism favors individual initiatives and serves as a market preserving device, others emphasize the dangers ...
Christoph A. Schaltegger +2 more
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Fiscal Federalism on the Portuguese Constitution? [PDF]
, 2010 Inês Pisco Bento
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Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 273-284, February 2026.ABSTRACT Constitutional political economy theory implies that systems of rights can emerge from different processes, but the rights that initially emerge tend to be unequal and to change through time. In some cases, rights may become more equal and universal, but not often. If rights are consequential, then understanding their origins and the political,
Roger D. Congleton
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Fiscal Equalisation among the states in Germany [PDF]
Germany's fiscal federalism has undergone a process of perpetual reform. On the one hand, some tax sources that have existed up to now – the corporate income tax is a good example in this context – will shortly be phased out because of changes in the ...
Jan Werner
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