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Beyond Federalism: Estimating and Explaining the Territorial Structure of Government

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  • Liesbet Hooghe
  • Gary Marks

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This article suggests that the basic distinction between federal and unitary government has limited as well as served our understanding of government. The notion that variation in the structure of government is a difference of kind rather than degree has straight-jacketed attempts to estimate the authority of intermediate government. One result has been the claim that a country's footprint, not its population, is decisive for government. Analyzing data for thirty-nine countries since 1950, and comparing our own findings with those of alternative measurements, we find evidence for the causal effect of population. This can be theorized in terms of a trade-off between responsiveness to soft information and per-capita economies in public good provision. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.

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  • Liesbet Hooghe & Gary Marks, 2013. "Beyond Federalism: Estimating and Explaining the Territorial Structure of Government," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 43(2), pages 179-204, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:179-204
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    1. Mario Jametti & Marcelin Joanis, 2020. "Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 275-297, September.
    2. Alfred M Wu, 2019. "The logic of basic education provision and public goods preferences in Chinese fiscal federalism," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(12), pages 1-15, December.

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