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Using electoral data on separatist political movements from a large variety of European regions since the mid-1990s, our findings indicate that regions with comparatively higher fiscal and institutional autonomy are more prone to vote for secessionist parties. Accounting for possible endogeneity, asymmetric territorial self-governance seems to cause much stronger incentives to vote for secessionist platforms, while the association with fiscally more symmetric arrangements is surprisingly small.","onlinedate":"2018-01-01 01:00:00","lang":"English","publication_series":"","publication_date":"20180101","publication_date_year":"2018","publication_date_full":false,"publication_num_pages":"","keywords":"[\"Fiscal federalism\",\"Secession\"]","jelcodes":"[\"H77\"]","related_publications":"[]","pdf":null,"zip":null,"link":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/publius\/pjx060","monthly_report":false,"monthly_report_main":false,"monthly_report_volume":"48","monthly_report_pages":"161-190","monthly_report_pages_sort":"161","issue":"2","journal":"Publius: The Journal of Federalism","publisher":"","invisible":false,"external":true,"embargo_date":null,"types":[83083],"research_groups":[3500],"collaboration":"","persons":[15391,3792,12815],"persons_data":"[{\"personId\":15391,\"personName\":\"Martin Rode\",\"organisationNames\":[]},{\"personId\":3792,\"personName\":\"Hans Pitlik\",\"organisationNames\":[]},{\"personId\":12815,\"personName\":\"Miguel \u00c1ngel Borrella Mas\",\"organisationNames\":[]}]","clients":[],"subclients":[],"partners":[],"topics":[],"host_publication_title":"","host_publication_subtitle":"","place_of_publication":"","host_publication_editors":"[]","type_description":"","output_media":"","chapter":"","article_number":"","scientific_assistance":"[]","scientific_review":"[]","version":"","release_date":null,"expiration_date":null,"surveyor":"","research_assistance":"","edv":"","additional_info_de":"","additional_info_en":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does Fiscal Federalism Deter or Spur Secessionist Movements? 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