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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if
Carolyn Bourdeaux +4 more
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Fiscal federalism in Germany: Stabilization and redistribution before and after unification [PDF]
We provide empirical estimates of the risk-sharing and redistributive properties of the German federal fiscal system based on data from 1970 until 2006, with special attention to the effects of German unification. We find that tax revenue sharing between
von Hagen, Jürgen, Hepp, Ralf
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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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Life cycle thinking in plastics design
Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract This article aims to contribute to the ongoing scholarly reflection on the intersection between law and (plastics) production. It builds on the importance of ‘design’ for a more sustainable plastics economy by examining the role of law in bringing life cycle considerations into the design phase.
Laurel Besco, Eva R. van der Marel
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Fiscal Federalism and Demography [PDF]
The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local governments in Germany with a focus on the expenditure side to answer the question, whether demographic change will induce vertical fiscal expenditure imbalances. We present
Seitz, Helmut, Kempkes, Gerhard
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments in many of the advanced economies expanded childcare, an exemplary social investment policy, in recent years. Yet, considerable regional variation exists in expansion efforts, and often the supply of childcare still does not match demand.
Erik Neimanns, Björn Bremer
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Fiscal Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ten Years after the Dayton Treatment and Still not in a Steady Condition [PDF]
The following paper deals with the fiscal federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Besides a detailed description of the development of the fiscal federalism in BiH since the Dayton peace process, the main focus of this paper is to illustrate how the ...
Jan Werner +2 more
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Fiscal Federalism: a Solution for the European Union during the Crisis?
EIRP Proceedings, 2011 Addressing the cumbersome state-level fiscal crisis in the EU can be made and on the lack of afiscal federalist its architecture. Fiscal federalism is, inter alia one of the principles of European fiscal policy,redistribution of political ...
Adina Trandafir, Luminita Ristea
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The Environmental Race to the Bottom, Revisited
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits the environmental race to the bottom thesis in the United States, which argues that states compete for mobile capital by relaxing environmental regulations. Examining state‐level enforcement of federal surface mining and air pollution control regulation over a 35‐year period, we find robust evidence of strategic interaction
David M. Konisky, Neal D. Woods
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Welfare Regimes, Subnational Territories and Dynamics of School‐To‐Work Transitions
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Comparative research on school‐to‐work transitions (SWT) mainly focused on cross‐country differences, while territorial variations among sub‐national territories in youth labour market and transitions outcomes have been underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the impact over time of national institutional configurations and regional ...
Ruggero Cefalo, Rosario Scandurra
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