Policy Experimentation and Intergovernmental Grants in a Federal System
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Keywords
Fiscal institutional design through political compromise; Incentives in laboratory federalism; Intergovernmental grant conditionality; Policy innovation through trial and error; Policy experimentation space.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
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