Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization

DOI10.1111/1467-937X.00207zbMath1026.91051OpenAlexW2102674878MaRDI QIDQ4789807

Ben Lockwood

Publication date: 15 January 2003

Published in: Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-937x.00207

zbMATH Keywords

majority votingdecentralizationfiscal policycentralization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10)

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