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Accounting for centralization in the European Union : Niskanen, Monnet or Thatcher ?
2002
Centralisation at the level of the European Union takes the form, not so much of increased, staff or budget, but of enlarged responsibilities and an increased share in regulation. The paper first reviews possible explanations of that trend that are based on a view of bureaucracy inspired by, or closely related, to William Niskanen's. It then turns to a discussion of the extent to which any characteristic of the EU machinery can develop without the acquiescenceor agency of a majority of the member-state governments, and of the discussion of whether centralisation as a process is not simply a way to implement, in the manner suggested by Jean Monnet, the "ever closer union" that was - and, to …
A comparison of internal and international barriers to trade
1999
In a world in which barriers to trade at all levels - international and internal - are mostly a by-product of the implementation by governments of different regulatory policies to deal with domestic or local problems, the mechanisms that are set in motion by the operation of competition among the governments inhabiting the different jurisdictional tiers of federal countries lead to outcomes that are different from those generated by the 'agreed-upon' rules that govern the relations of national governments with each other in matters of international trade. A model is used to compare two ways of dealing with the external damages that are consequent on the pursuit of beneficial domestic regula…
Horizontal Competition Among Governments
2005
Governments situated on the same level of a multi-level governmental system compete with each other as well as with those placed higher or lower. This paper is concerned with horizontal competition only. It discusses both competition based on the mobility of agents (individuals, business firms, or factors) and competition related to the circulation of information. With regard to the first kind, it focuses on the capacity that governments keep to decide their policies and compete in spite of the mobility of agents. Some attention is also given to the implications of some non-standard assumptions about the underlying political setup. The discussion of information-based competition includes th…
Vertical competition in a unitary state
2000
The paper is concerned with what Albert Breton, in his theory of competitive federalism has called vertical competition, that is, competition between governments situated at different levels. However its setting is government systems that are unitary rather than federal and structured around three or four levels of government rather than the two often implicitly assumed. The paper tries to show that these characteristics may offer a partial solution to what is perhaps the major problem raised by vertical competition, that is, how winners in a vertical contest get protected against retaliation by the losers when the latter can change the rules (which are not constitutionally entrenched). In …
El federalisme i les diputacions: cartografia d'una paradoxa
2015
En el articulo se trata el difícil encaje de las diputaciones provinciales en el actual Estado de las autonomías y en modelo de Estado Federal que algunos proponen como evolución del autonómico.
Il Federalismo Fiscale e la Regione Siciliana
2011
Il federalismo fiscale
Federalismo fiscale e partecipazione dei comuni all'accertamento tributario
2010
Il Federalismo fiscale e la partecipazione dei comuni all'accertamento tributario
DDL Federalismo fiscale.
2013
Il federalismo fiscale visto dal profondo Sud.
Federalismo fiscale e perequazione: l'autonomia della responsabilità
2013
Il dibattito sul federalismo nel secondo dopoguerra
2018
Il Movimento Federalista Europeo viene fondato a Milano nel 1943 da Altiero Spinelli con un gruppo di antifascisti, come movimento di idee e di azione, con l’obiettivo di dare vita ad una federazione di Stati Uniti d’Europa. Per Altiero Spinelli, che del movimento fu l’ideatore principale, lo scopo prioritario della lotta politica era quello di assicurare stabilmente al vecchio continente i valori irrinunciabili della pace, della libertà, della democrazia e della giustizia sociale. Sulla scia di tale orientamento si sviluppò un intenso dibattito che, prima ancora della fondazione del Movimento Federalista Europeo, aveva trovato un riscontro teorico nel “Manifesto di Ventotene”, originariame…