Externalities and Bailouts: Hard and Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations [PDF]
Central government matching grants can, in principle, induce socially- efficient provision of local public goods that produce spillover benefits. Local underprovision of public goods may however elicit direct central-government provision and finance (a ``
David E. Wildasin
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance In The United States
Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2014 Regional inequalities are currently a challenge for the majority of countries, in particular large ones, certain of which are federations. The federal state system is more complex than the unitary system. This results in specific problems. One of them is
Kowalik Paweł
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Measuring Fiscal Decentralization in the Philippines [PDF]
This paper focuses on the fiscal decentralization in the Philippines after the 1991 Local Government Code. It first examines the intergovernmental fiscal relationship between central and local governments by using fiscal decentralization indicators, and ...
Suzuki, Yurika, Uchimura, Hiroko
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Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith +3 more
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Balancing fiscal expenditure competition and long-term innovation investment: Exploring trade-offs and policy implications for local governments. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Wenjuan S, Zhao K.
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China's reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the light of European experiences
The paper looks a China's institutional reforms in public finances against the background of European experiences. Particular attention is given to Switzerland and Germany where there is a high degree of consensus forming mechanisms.
Spahn, Paul Bernd
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Decentralization in regional fiscal systems in Russia - trends and links to economic performance [PDF]
To shed light on decentralization in Russia, the authors examine intergovernmental fiscal relations within regions. To analyze trends, they review channels of fiscal allocation within regions - tax sharing and local transfer schemes.
Freinkman, Lev, Yossifov, Plamen
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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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Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations in Ukraine
ScienceRise, 2015 У статті визначено особливості процесу реформування міжбюджетних відносин в Україні, в тому числі моделі бюджетного федералізму, яка використовуються при формуванні міжбюджетних відносин. Проаналізовано механізм бюджетного регулювання фіскальних дисбалансів та напрями запровадження вертикального і горизонтального фінансового вирівнювання у бюджетну ...
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