In this paper, we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal
decentralization on the economy, society and politics. Our first target is the examination of …

Drawing on a wide range of literature and ideas, a new “second-generation theory of fiscal
federalism” is emerging that provides new insights into the structure and working of federal …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

In this article, we review a growing empirical literature on the effects of personal taxation on
the geographic mobility of people and discuss its policy implications. We start by laying out …

The burgeoning of ibusiness firms in the modern digital economy challenges the received
internationalization theory. Given that ibusinesses such as social networking sites create …

Can external threats strengthen group identity? A growing body of research in economics
emphasises the importance of cultural attributes such as identity for trust and cooperation …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time--vehemently debated,
steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not …

Charron N., Dijkstra L. and Lapuente V. Regional governance matters: quality of government
within European Union member states, Regional Studies. This study presents novel data …

Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping
“ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern …