Bulletin n. 1/2005
December 2005
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Tridimasa George Winerb Stanley L.
    The political economy of government size
    in European Journal of Political Economy , Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2005 ,  2005 ,  Pages 643-666
    We contribute to the political economy of public-sector growth by integrating three essential elements (i) the ‘demand’ for government stemming from attempts to coercively redistribute, as well as from demand for public services, often analyzed in a median voter framework; (ii) the ‘supply’ of taxable activities emphasized in Leviathan and other models of taxation; and (iii) the distribution of ‘political influence’ when influence and economic welfare are distinct. We combine these elements in a spatial voting framework, and use the comparative static properties of the model to shed light on empirical results in the literature.
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