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| Mehl, Peter; Plankl, Reiner. |
| A large portion of the agri-structural policies and agri-environmental policies in the Federal Republic of Germany are decided within the framework of complex decision-making structures and fiscal responsibility at different political levels (the federal states, the national government, and the European Union), resulting in “double-interlocked federalism”. This paper describes the specific institutional configuration and its historical development, and presents a financial analysis of the development plans for rural areas in selected federal states to illustrate the increasing role of interlocked federalism. The interplay between the political levels took an unexpectedly flexible, and between the various states heterogeneous, form. All in all, however, the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural structure policies; Agri-environmental policies; Interlocked federalism; Rural areas; Financial analysis; Federalism; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98865 |
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| Brennan, Timothy J.. |
| Following recent telecommunications mergers, local (mostly municipal and county) governments and the federal government are fighting over who should determine whether cable television systems must make their facilities available to unaffiliated providers of high-speed ("broadband") Internet service. This intergovernmental dispute is only the latest in a series of such clashes regarding competition and communications policy. A brief review of the policy suggests that substantively, local open-access requirements are not yet warranted. However, the economics of federalism, primarily that the relevant markets are local, indicates that local governments should have the right to choose these policies, perhaps erroneously. Federal preemption could prevent... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Federalism; Internet; Regulation; Vertical integration; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; H1; L5; L1. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10823 |
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| Urfei, Guido. |
| The following analysis leads to an empirically based ranking, which embodies political decision makers to evaluate the necessity of horizontal co-ordination for different issues concerning nature and landscape conservation. First of all the relevant German law and order as well as its spatial conservation categories will be explained (Chapter 2). Secondly the conclusions concerning the spatial inhomogeneity of conservation areas and their implications to environmental-policy are substantiated by the principles of the economic theory of environmental federalism (Chapter 3). Thirdly the definition of suitable concentration indices follows, their quantification for examples of conservation categories (Chapter 4), and the draw up of political recommendations,... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Nature conservation policy; Spillovers; Federalism; Spatial impacts; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98260 |
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| Brennan, Timothy J.. |
| Jurisdictions have overlapping authority regarding electricity restructuring when a national authority and subnational regional governments-for example, states-both have a say. The initial sections of the paper review the division of regulatory authority over electricity markets in the United States, constitutional provisions, recent developments, and how federalist concerns have been manifested in antitrust and telecommunications. Justifications for using private markets rather than central governments suggest an efficiency approach to dividing authority, based on information, cross-border externalities, and agency, that is, the ability of a government to reflect the political preferences of its constituents. The goal is not to impose a "right" policy... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Electricity restructuring; Federalism; Regulatory policy; Political Economy; H11; L94; L51; H77. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10802 |
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| Harrington, Winston; McConnell, Virginia D.; Walls, Margaret. |
| Regulation of mobile source emissions in the US has evolved as a complex combination of central government and decentralized authority. The central government required uniform new car emissions standards in the 1970 Clean Air Act, but gave states the power to meet ambient air quality standards however they saw fit, including various regulations on mobile sources. The 1990 Amendments to the Act strengthened the Federal role in some ways, by requiring tighter new car standards and more specific requirements for fuels and for vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance, but at the same time left states with a great deal of latitude to meet ambient standards and took greater recognition of regional variation in environmental problems. We examine the role of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Mobile source; Federalism; Public Economics; Q25; Q28. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10636 |
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