FEDERALISM AND DEMOCRACY

Democracy, Federalism, and the Size of States

We demonstrate that territorial size is intimately linked to the structure of political authority within states. We take an evolutionary approach, arguing that there are certain stable, long-term equilibrium combinations of size and political institutions. Building on a general theory of public goods provision and rentseeking, we predict that, ceteris paribus, democracies will tend to be smalle...

Federalism and Incentives for Success of Democracy

Success and failure of democracy are interpreted as different equilibria of a dynamic political game with cost of changing leadership and incomplete information about politicians’ virtue. Unitary democracy can be frustrated when voters do not replace corrupt leaders, because any new leader would probably also govern corruptly. However, federal democracy cannot be consistently frustrated at both...

On Institutionalizing Dynamic Federalism and Effective Democracy in Developing Countries How to get developing countries’ governments right: The power of dynamic federalism and democracy A NEW PROPOSAL FOR FEDERALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Typical developing countries are chara cterized by the problem of ‘over-government’. Economic growth is hampered by excessive government interventions. The state tends to interfere in almost all activities and endeavours to regulate them minutely. The government sector which is often very large, employs a high proportion of the population outside agriculture. The administration tends to be more...

Uncontrolled Experiments from the Laboratories of Democracy: Traditional Cash Welfare, Federalism, and Welfare Reform

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Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.