Self-Enforcing Federalism

The Achaeans and the Europeans: An Interdisciplinary Comparison of Federations

“…Our argumentation here is also verified by the findings of de Figueiredo and Weingast (2005) who argued that the two basic principles that must exist for federal institutions to emerge are: a) there must be gains by the participation in a federation b) these gains cannot be found in an alternative institutional and political form of organization. The citizens of the Greek federations and more specifically, in our case, the Achaean one, were willing to fight to preserve them because they perceived a community of interest and an increased personal welfare (mainly due to no barriers in commercial activity between city-states, which benefited all sides) from belonging to them (Mackil 2013;Economou, Kyriazis, & Metaxas, 2015;Economou & Kyriazis, 2016).…”

Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy

“…He implicitly suggests that political alignment matters since politicians from the same party across government levels need each other to win national and local offices. Refinements of the argument build on the fact that the repeated nature of the political interactions facilitates policy coordination across party lines (self-enforcing federalism as discussed in de Figuereido & Weingast (2005)). But it can also lead to repeated disagreements as discussed in Behar (2009).…”

How will China’s central–local governmental relationships evolve? An analytical framework and its implications

“…De Figureiredo and Weingast (2005) and Weingast (2005) represent the third branch. They emphasise the importance of the power balance between federal and state governments for a self-enforcing federalism.…”

“…Based on the theory of self-enforcing federalism (de Figureiredo and Weingast 2005), Zhang (2005Zhang ( , 2008Zhang ( , 2009 further develops an analytical framework to coordinate the three branches in constitutional economics. He further divides governmental controlling capability into two major dimensions: the personnel dimension (or democratic dimension) and the fiscal dimension.…”