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have the political capacity to veto them. Eastern voters remain an essential con-
stituency in federal elections, and their regional leaders an essential voting block
in the Bundesrat. Overall, the combined role of cross-regional economic exter-
nalities and the system of representation overcame the disintegrating effect of
a radical transformation in the patterns of economic geography, thus securing
the continuation of very large levels of redistribution among territories.
