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Federations and Health Care Spending
In putting together my material for my fiscal federalism course next term, I decided to take a look at some health spending figures for the OECD countries in order to compare federal with non-federal countries. Federal structures generally try to combine the economic advantages of a more centralized state with some of the welfare and […]
Universities as Federations
Alex Usher had an interesting post on how universities are basically conflicted between their central authorities and the interests of the assorted disciplines that make up a university. He stresses that the actual point of a university is that it serves to advance knowledge by getting disciplines to work together to tackle problems in a […]
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