Dissertation Research: Federalism and Economic Adjustment

这个博士论文研究支持项目分析了政治联邦主义对新兴市场和发展中国家国民经济调整能力的影响。 现有的文献强调国家一级的政治动态影响调整努力，在很大程度上忽视了面向市场的改革与联邦政治制度所固有的政治和财政权力下放之间的复杂关系。 与此相反，这项研究的理论出发点中心点是政治权力的地域划分对生产和金融市场全球化的经济调整可能产生的消极后果。 指导这项研究的中心假设是，随着国家内部各级政府之间政治利益的分歧，经济稳定和调整的能力下降。 一些具体的假设来回答是否与联邦安排的国家调整不如中央集权的国家，什么样的制度激励跨联邦系统鼓励成功的调整，以及哪些因素影响单个州的能力，调整在联邦国家。 这些问题将在一个广泛的比较框架内处理，其中包括统计和实地研究方法。

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support project analyzes the impact of political federalism upon the capacity for national economic adjustment in emerging market and developing nations. Existing literature has emphasized the national level political dynamics shaping adjustment efforts, largely ignoring the complicated relationship between market-oriented reform and the decentralization of political and fiscal power inherent in federal political systems. In contrast, the research has as its central point of theoretical departure the potentially negative consequences of the territorial division of political power for economic adjustment to the globalization of production and financial markets. The central hypothesis guiding the research is that the capacity for economic stabilization and adjustment decreases with the divergence of political interests across different levels of government within nations. A number of specific hypotheses are developed to answer whether or not nations with federal arrangements adjust less successfully than centralized nations, what institutional incentives across federal systems encourage successful adjustment, and what factors influence the capacity of individual states to adjust within federal nations. These questions will be addressed in a broad comparative framework that incorporates statistical and field research methods.