Federalism as a Commitment to Preserving Market Incentives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingyi Qian
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Credible Commitment ◽  
Market Incentives ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
New Perspective

We advance a new perspective in the study of federalism. Our approach views federalism as a governance solution of the state to credibly preserving market incentives. Market incentives are preserved if the state is credibly prevented from compromising on future economic success and from bailing out future failures. The salient features of federalism — decentralization of information and authority and inter-jurisdiction competition — help provide credible commitment for these purposes. In addition, we discuss factors relevant for sustaining federalism.

scholarly journals Federalism as a Commitment to Preserving Market Incentives

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingyi Qian ◽  
Barry R Weingast
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Interjurisdictional Competition ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Credible Commitment ◽  
Market Incentives ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
New Perspective

The authors advance a new perspective in the study of federalism. Their approach views federalism as a governance solution of the state to credibly preserving market incentives. Market incentives are preserved if the state is credibly prevented from compromising on future economic success and from bailing out future failures. The salient features of federalism--decentralization of information and authority and interjurisdictional competition--help provide credible commitment or these purposes. In addition, the authors suggest that some federalism are self-sustaining.

Recasting Feminine Identity in Assamese Cinema

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Rinku Pegu
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Status Of Women

Rarely would an auteur choose a female protagonist as the lead character for one's debut film. In 1935, Jyoti Prasad Agarwal chose a historical figure of Ahom princess Joymoti as the central character for the first Assamese film. Was it enough to portray an Ahom princess as the lead character, or was it lending the historical figure a new perspective? During the stated period in Assam, the cult of Joymoti had gathered momentum. In this discourse, much emphasis was given on Joymoti sacrificing her life rather than revealing the whereabouts of her husband Prince Gadapani to the state authorities. This chapter seeks to explore how the social status of women was addressed and tackled in the film.

Japanese and the mainland dialects

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-195
Author(s):  
Masayoshi Shibatani
Keyword(s):  
Case Particles ◽  
Old Japanese ◽  
Eastern Old Japanese ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time

After a brief discussion on the relationships between modern mainland dialects with the two varieties of Old Japanese, Central Old Japanese and Eastern Old Japanese, the salient features of Standard Japanese are described from the new perspective of grammatical nominalizations. Then cross-dialectal studies are presented on selected topics, centering on case particles and the conclusive/adnominal verbal patterns. Also presented for the first time in English is a reasonably detailed description of the isolated dialect of Hachijō Island, which, like Ryūkyūan, retains many archaic features of Old Japanese.

Accessing the state: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorship

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Meng
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Credible Commitment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Game Theoretic Model ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Commitment Problems

When do executive constraints provide credible commitment power in dictatorships, and under what conditions do leaders establish such constraints? This article argues that institutions successfully constrain autocrats only when elites are given real access to state power, such as appointments to key governmental positions. I present a game theoretic model in which an autocratic leader decides whether to establish binding constraints at the start of her rule. Doing so shifts the future distribution of power in favor of elites, alleviating commitment problems in bargaining. I show that leaders are likely to place constraints on their own authority when they enter power especially weak, and these initial decisions shape the rest of their rule. Even if a leader enters power in a uniquely weak position vis-á-vis other elites, and is on average, quite strong, the need to alleviate commitment problems in the first period swamps expectations about the future distribution of power. I illustrate the model’s findings through case studies of Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire.

Free Association and Civil Society in Cuba, 1787–1895

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64
Author(s):  
ALFONSO W. QUIROZ
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Long Term Evolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Term Evolution ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThis study provides a new perspective on civil society in Cuba during the nineteenth century based on concrete information about multiple types of association in different regions of the island. Modern associations developed mainly to meet specific social and cultural needs, achieve legal autonomy from the state and exercise free association despite colonial constraints. This long-term evolution covers several periods of intersections between civil society and political spheres, framed primarily by non-violent constitutionalist and reformist struggles rather than armed separatist conflicts. These findings contradict prevalent interpretations that portray an endemically weak yet increasingly militant civil society. Instead, a growing, moderate, and progressively autonomous and diverse civil society contributed gradually to undermine colonial despotism and establish key bases for post-independence democracy.

scholarly journals Scientific School of the Department of Theory of Management: Founders, Followers, Disciples

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Шрамченко ◽  
Tamara SHramchyenko
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
State University ◽  
Salient Features

The article presented a brief description of the most salient features of founders, followers, students of the scientific school of the Department of theory of management of the State University of Management, who worked there for fifty years. Today the staff of the department gratefully remembers the contributions of notable scholars and practitioners in the shaping and development of the country’s first scientific school of management theory.

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