caa a22 4500 388079630 CHVBK 20180307125209.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585761 doi S0003055400216626 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585761 Political Confederation [Elektronische Daten] This article extends the spatial model of voting to study the implications of different institutional structures of federalism along two dimensions: degree of centralization and mode of representation. The representation dimension varies the weight between unit representation (one state, one vote) and population-proportional representation (one person, one vote). Voters have incomplete information and can reduce policy risk by increasing the degree of centralization or increasing the weight on unit representation. We derive induced preferences over the degree of centralization and the relative weights of the two modes of representation, and we study the properties of majority rule voting over these two basic dimensions of federalism. Moderates prefer more centralization than extremists, and voters in large states generally have different preferences from voters in small states. This implies two main axes of conflict in decisions concerning political confederation: moderates versus extremists and large versus small states. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Crémer Jacques Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse Palfrey Thomas R. California Institute of Technology American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 69-83 0003-0554 93:1<69 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crémer Jacques Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Palfrey Thomas R. California Institute of Technology NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 69-83 0003-0554 93:1<69 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge