Polycentric polity: Genuine vs. spurious federalism

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Eusepi, Giuseppe ^a   Wagner, Richard E ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

competitive government; decentralization; federalism; polycentricity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650888696     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1534     Document Type: Review

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