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Fiscal federalism as a solution for the eurozone problems
Recent economic problems have proved once again that the best trigger for European integration is crisis. As for now the causes of world financial crisis and European debt crisis are not the main subject of economists’ polemics. The key problems is how
Tomasz Rosiak
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Although the effect of public expenditure efficiency on local government fiscal performance is widely-documented, what precisely explains expenditure efficiency remains largely unclear. Nevertheless, past research holds fiscal illusion as the most likely
Paul Onyango-Delewa
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment
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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Federalism: A Comprehensive Review of Its Evolution, Typologies, and Contemporary Issues
This 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 purpose of the article is to examine the influence of financial, socio-economic, and environmental degradation factors on the expenditure scope of environmental federalism. The panel data models were estimated based on 26 European countries for the
Paweł Galiński
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Policy Points Improving population health while reducing inequality is possible, but it depends on broad institutional investments whose benefits extend across the socioeconomic distribution rather than accruing primarily to the advantaged. The education–health gradient is sensitive to the race between technology and education.
MARK D. HAYWARD, MATEO P. FARINA
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Fiscal Federalism, Taxation and Grants [PDF]
We propose a theory of tax centralization and inter governmental grants in politico-economic equilibrium. The cost of taxation differs across levels of government because voters internalize general equilibrium effects at the central but not at the local level.
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín, Niepelt, Dirk
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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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Fiscal Federalism and Electoral Accountability [PDF]
AbstractWe evaluate how governance uncertainty—exemplified by turnout uncertainty—affects the trade‐off between internalization of externalities and political accountability in the design of the fiscal state. We show that centralization only weakens political accountability in the presence of negative externalities.
Aidt, Toke, Dutta, Jayasri
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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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