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@book{ Hooghe2012,
 title = {Beyond federalism: estimating and explaining the territorial structure of government},
 author = {Hooghe, Liesbet and Marks, Gary},
 year = {2012},
 series = {KFG Working Paper Series},
 pages = {39},
 volume = {37},
 address = {Berlin},
 publisher = {Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"},
 issn = {1868-7601},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-374157},
 abstract = {This paper suggests that the basic distinction between federal and unitary government has limited as well as served our understanding of government. The notion that variation in the structure of government is a difference of kind rather than degree has straight-jacketed attempts to estimate the authority of intermediate government. One result has been the claim that a country’s footprint, not its population, is decisive for government. Analyzing data for 39 countries since 1950, and comparing our own findings with those of alternative measurements, we find evidence for the causal effect of population. This can be theorized in terms of a trade-off between responsiveness to soft information and per capita economies in public good provision.},
 keywords = {Föderalismus; centralization; Zentralisierung; national state; multi-level-governance; confederation; Staat; politische Einstellung; Bundesregierung; political decision; type of government; federation; federalism; political governance; political attitude; decision making; politische Partizipation; multi-level system; Staatenbund; population; politische Steuerung; Mehrebenensystem; politische Entscheidung; political participation; decentralization; Föderation; Multi-Level-Governance; Bevölkerung; Entscheidungsfindung; Federal Government; Staatsform; Dezentralisation}}