WE Oates - International tax and public finance, 2005 - Springer
Drawing on a wide range of literature and ideas, a new “second-generation theory of fiscal federalism” is emerging that provides new insights into the structure and working of federal …
Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of the political and policy making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully …
This book develops and tests a" thermostatic" model of public opinion and policy, in which preferences for policy both drive and adjust to changes in policy. The representation of …
BR Weingast - Journal of urban economics, 2009 - Elsevier
First generation fiscal federalism (FGFF) studies the performance of decentralized systems under the assumption of benevolent social planners. Second generation fiscal federalism …
Abstract Did New Public Management (NPM) actually lead to a smaller public sector? NPM has been the subject of extensive academic debate as to its successes and failures …
J Rodden - American Journal of Political Science, 2002 - JSTOR
This article uses cross-national data to examine the effects of fiscal and political institutions on the fiscal performance of subnational governments. Long-term balanced budgets among …
A first generation of studies of the causes and consequences of decentralization and federalism viewed decentralization as a simple zero-sum transfer of authority from the center …
This project started in the late 1990s with the simple observation that however compelling and elegant, leading theories of federalism in economics and political science had little to do …
KM Morrison - International organization, 2009 - cambridge.org
Nontax revenues make up a substantial amount of government revenue around the world, though scholars usually focus on individual sources of such revenue (for example, foreign …