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Fiscal Federalism and Diversity Accommodation in Multilevel States

This open access edited book connects two strands of federal studies, fiscal federalism, and diversity accommodation, to answer two closely interrelated questions.

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Cooperation or Confrontation? Analyzing the Existing Policy Provisions, Intergovernmental Mechanisms, and Practical Challenges of Cooperative Federalism in Nepal

Policy & Governance Review
This study examines the policy and practice of cooperative federalism in Nepal by analyzing constitutional mandates, legislative frameworks, and empirical evidence.
Baburam Bhul
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Fiscal Federalism and Electoral Accountability [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
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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From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

Energy and Environmental Challenges in the European Union and Green Bonds

Social Sciences
Could the European Union mitigate the negative effects of economic, pandemic and environmental crises using only one tool? The answer is positive, by implementing “green” fiscal expansion financed by “green” common debt, such as issuing green bonds.
Georgios Maris, Marios Psychalis
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The Decentralization of Liquor Policies in Texas During the Post‐Prohibition Era

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the decentralization of liquor policies in Texas during the Post‐Prohibition era using newly collected historical legislative roll call data. By combining these data with local referendum vote shares, we analyze both legislators' and constituents' preferences on liquor policy.
Andrew Arnold, Holger Sieg
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Political Polarization and Consensus in the US Congress: An Analysis of Policy Issues and Institutional Factors (1991–2020)

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how different policy issues and institutional factors influence the strength of political consensus and polarized voting in the United States (US) Congress between 1991 and 2020. Utilising the Jordan Tama important congressional votes dataset, the analysis investigates the impact of external factors, such as foreign trade ...
Binda Godlove Aka, Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh   +1 more
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The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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FISCAL FEDERALISM IN UNITED MEXICAN STATES

Ra Ximhai, 2017
The purpose of this is to analyze the reason to be of the State, its elements, characteristics of Federal State, main differences between Federal States and Unit States; the constitutional framework and legality of fiscal federalism with respect to ...
María Guadalupe Naranjo-Cantabrana
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