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Political Confederation

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  • Crémer, Jacques
  • Palfrey, Thomas R.

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This paper explores the implications of different institutional arrangements for allocating policy-making authority among confederated districts. Using a variation on the spatial model of political competition, we compare different rules for aggregating preferences acrossthese jurisdictions, under the assumption that voters face uncertainty about the distribution of preferences of other voters.
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  • Crémer, Jacques & Palfrey, Thomas R., 1997. "Political Confederation," IDEI Working Papers 72, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse.
    • Handle: RePEc:ide:wpaper:1224
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    1. Martin Bodenstein & Heinrich Ursprung, 2005. "Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation:," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 124(3), pages 329-352, September.
    2. Basu, Shubhabrata & Pereira, Vijay & Sinha, Paresha & Malik, Ashish & Moovendhan, V., 2022. "Esoteric governance mechanism and collective brand equity creation in confederated organizations: Evidence from an emerging economy," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 217-230.
    3. Ross Hickey, 2013. "Bicameral bargaining and federation formation," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 154(3), pages 217-241, March.
    4. Garaudel, Pierre, 2020. "Exploring meta-organizations’ diversity and agency: A meta-organizational perspective on global union federations," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(1).
    5. Lockwood, Ben, 2000. "The Assignment Of Powers In Federal And Unitary States," Economic Research Papers 268793, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    6. John William Hatfield & Gerard Padró i Miquel, 2008. "A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization," NBER Working Papers 14628, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James A. & Torvik, Ragnar, 2020. "The political agenda effect and state centralization," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(4), pages 749-778.
    8. Cremer, Jacques & Palfrey, Thomas R., 2006. "An equilibrium voting model of federal standards with externalities," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(10-11), pages 2091-2106, November.
    9. Jon X. Eguia, 2006. "United We Vote," Working Papers 2006.9, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    10. Pierre Garaudel, 2020. "Exploring meta-organizations’ diversity and agency: A meta-organizational perspective on global union federations," Post-Print halshs-02474817, HAL.
    11. Mark Gradstein, 2000. "The Political Economy of Sustainable Federations," CESifo Working Paper Series 315, CESifo.

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    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General

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