In this paper we test the Leviathan hypothesis, focusing on the joint impact of fiscal decentralization and legislative monopoly power in the growth of the public sector. Two proxies of legislative monopoly power are considered: the control of all relevant houses by the executive party and the margin of majority. Using a dynamic panel-based error correction model on OECD member countries, we fi...

This paper revisits the influential “Leviathan” hypothesis, which posits that tax competition limits the growth of government spending in decentralized countries. It uses panel data to examine the effect of fiscal decentralization over time within countries, attempting to distinguish between decentralization that is funded by intergovernmental transfers and local taxation. First, it sets out a ...

A lot of configurable software, especially in the domain of embedded and operating systems, is configured with a source preprocessor, mostly to avoid run-time overhead. However, developers then have to face a myriad of preprocessor directives and the corresponding complexity in the source code, even when they might only be working on the implementation of a single feature at a time. Thus, it ha...

Naturalization without Natural Kinds: On the prospects of a unified theory of religion. From the propagation of religion, it is not hard to understand the causes of the resolution of the same into its first seeds or principles; which are only an opinion of a deity, and powers invisible and supernatural; that can never be so abolished out of human nature but that new religions may again be made ...

The journal Leviathan devotes itself to enlightenment and criticism in the social sciences. It publishes current research debate on topics drawn from politics, culture, economics, philosophy, law society.

Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) was one of the outstanding representatives English materialism in seventeenth century (Duncan, 2021), who "systematized Francis Bacon's materialism" (Marx & Engels, 2004, p. 196). At same time, he applied principle mechanism to socio-political field (Hobbes, 2019, 3). In work on politics, "Leviathan," main expresses quite fully content which is essence political ...

This article attributes one of the three “first” editions Leviathan to London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution a different in recent Clarendon Edition Leviathan. We lay out mystery Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces say why we attribute its printing Richardson. then give short sketch Richardson’s life c...