Arbeitspapier
Why Adopt a Federal Constitution? And why Decentralize? – Determinants Based on a New Dataset
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component analysis. When we try to identify their main determinants, it turns out that the only explanatory variable that is significantly correlated with all three is the geographical size of a country. Other variables, such as the size of the population, linguistic fractionalization, or the level of democracy, only help to explain variation of one component. We interpret this as evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining their causes and consequences. We further test for the first time the effect of spatial inequality in a country on the adoption of federalism or decentralization and we find that it correlates significantly with constitutional federalism. This suggests that economically heterogeneous states are more likely to adopt a federal constitution.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ILE Working Paper Series ; No. 6
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Federalism
Fiscal Federalism
Decentralization
Geography
Institutions
Endogenous Constitutions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gutmann, Jerg
Voigt, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE)
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Hamburg
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gutmann, Jerg
- Voigt, Stefan
- University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE)
Entstanden
- 2017
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