Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds

The Assignment of Powers in Federal and Unitary States

This paper studies a model where the power to set policy (a choice of project) may be assigned to central or regional government via either a federal or unitary constitutional rule (CR). The bene...t of central provision is economies of scale, while the cost is political ine¢ciency. Using the analytical tool of the net dissenting vote, the relationship between federal and unitary CRs is charact...

Discrimination of Emotional States amongst the Tamils

Leff has concluded from his analysis of the JPSS Study that the emotions of anxiety, depression and irritability are poorly discriminated amongst the population using non-Indo-European languages. The present author after analyzing similar data from the ICMR Multicentred Collaborative Study of Factors Associated with the Course and outcome of Schizophrenia that the Tamil population using Tamil, ...

Perceptions about Iranian-Kurds’ ethnic-inequality in health

BACKGROUND Evidence shows ethnic-inequality is a very effective variable in the Community and individual health associated outcomes. This study focused on gaining a deeper understanding of people's perception on inequality of health in Iranian-Kurds and its determinants. METHODS The study was conducted in the three cities of Marivan, Sanandaj (capital of Kurdistan province in Iran) and Tehran...

Ethnofederal versus Unitary States in the Postsocialist World

Small States, Large Unitary States and Federations

Employing a political-economics approach, this paper compares small states and unions when the former fail to internalize cross-border externalities of publicly provided goods. It discusses two types of unions: federations with more than one level of government and unitary states. While unitary states are unable to differentiate public spending ac-cording to differing preferences, rents of gove...