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Examples of federation

federation
The principal focus of this literature is the application of the balanced budget rule to sub-national levels of government, in particular regions within (fiscal) federations.
Corporatist government involves co-operation between encompassing labour and business federations, previously locked in a zero-sum distributional game.
In an important sense, as ties to shared voluntary federations have diminished, civic localism has increased.
Emboldened by these successes, as the war was nearing its end, both labor federations announced large-scale organizing drives.
However, the two union federations differ significantly in terms of membership composition.
While focused on securing the economic survival of their members, the coca growers' federations assumed many features of ethno-cultural movements.
No negotiation or sales of chewing gum could be made without the authorisation of the federation's president.
He was chie-y responsible for the federation's journal, ®rst published in 1898.
Overall, the workings of many of the provincial federations would appear to have been very irregular and at times totally chaotic.
At regional plenums only delegates from the different local or provincial federations attended, while at national plenums delegates from the regional committees attended.
The transfer partly substitutes the automatic stabilization that the federal government budget provides in more mature fiscal federations.
Since the federation's policies were vetoed, the central government, as well as the cantons, began to subsidise the social security programmes of these private carriers.
Agents are first partitioned into federations, called sectors, where membership is based on their geographic proximity.
Minorities erupted all over the country, demanding amongst other things an end to marginalisation, local political autonomy, rights to self-determination and a greater share of the federation's resources.
Due to the federation's lack of responsibility in the field of social insurance, the legislation process in the field of social policy was split into two stages.
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