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The impact of referendums on the centralisation of public goods provision: a political economy approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions.
Feld, Lars P.   +2 more
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The Political Economy of Policy Centralization: Direct Versus Representative Democracy [PDF]

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This paper examines policy centralization outcomes in a two-jurisdiction, political economy model of public good provision choices with heterogeneous policy preferences and interjurisdictional policy spillovers, under alternative democratic choice ...
Kimberley Ann Scharf, Michela Redoano
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Pyramidal Democracy [PDF]

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We consider a decentralized, multilayered representative democracy, where citizens participate in deliberative policy formation after self-organizing into a pyramidal hierarchy of small groups. Each group elects a delegate, who expresses the deliberative
Pivato, Marcus
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