The political economy of direct legislation: Direct democracy and local decision-making

Economic Policy

Volumn , Issue 33, 2001, Pages 329-367

  Feld, Lars P ^a   Kirchgässner, Gebhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FISCAL POLICY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC SPENDING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034799251     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0327.00078     Document Type: Article

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