...Gabor Simonovits; Julia Payson Does decentralizing policymaking authority to the local level lead to a closer match between public policies and citizen preferences? We study this question in the context of minimum wage laws, a salient and substantively important policy area with significant...

... are mine. © 2013 A. Loeper 2013 A. Loeper Licensed re-use rights only Federalism decentralization local discretion subsidiarity majority rule uncovered set H77 D72 Since the seminal work of Oates (1972) , the economic literature on federalism investigates which policies...

...Hongbin Cai; Daniel Treisman Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as “laboratories” of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy behind this belief, using...