The Political Geography of Inequality : Regions and Redistribution.
This is a book about redistribution and inequality in political unions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1: Regions and Redistribution: Introduction and Overview; PUZZLES: THE DOMINANT VIEW AND ITS LIMITS; OVERVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT; CHALLENGES AND THE ROAD AHEAD; Economic Geography and Preferences; Mobility and Fiscal Structures; From Preferences to Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Political Representation; THE BOOK'S CONTRIBUTIONS; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; 2: A Theory of Fiscal Structures in Political Unions.
- THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: ELEMENTS AND PREMISESECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND PREFERENCES FOR FISCAL STRUCTURES; The Geography of Income Inequality and Preferences for Fiscal Structures; The Geography of Risk and Preferences for Fiscal Structures; MOBILITY AND THE ORGANIZATION OF FISCAL STRUCTURES: INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION AS INSURANCE TO PROTECT AUTONOMY; FROM PREFERENCES TO CHOICES: REPRESENTATION AND THE CHOICE OF FISCAL STRUCTURES; SUMMARY OF HYPOTHESES; What drives the (de)centralizationof interpersonal redistribution?; What explains the levels of interregional redistribution?
- 3: The Road Ahead: The Empirical StrategyUNION FORMATION AND FISCAL STRUCTURES; EXOGENOUS CHANGES IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND MOBILITY; POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND THE STATUS QUO: WHEN CAN POLITICAL REPRESENTATION BE TAKEN AS GIVEN?; Endogenous Processes; Natural Experiments; SUMMARY: EMPIRICAL STRATEGY AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING; 4: The European Union: Economic Geography and Fiscal Structures under Centrifugal Representation; THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FISCAL STRUCTURE; SUSTAINING AUTONOMY, MANAGING RISKS: THE LOGIC BEHIND EUROPE'S FISCAL STRUCTURE.
- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE LIMITS TO INTERPERSONAL REDISTRIBUTIONThe Economic Geography of the Union; Social Policy in the European Union: An Overview; Assessing the Mechanisms: Economic Geography and Institutional Preferences in the EU; MOBILITY AND INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION; THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS; 5: North America's Divide: Distributive Tensions, Risk Sharing, and the Centralization of Public Insurance in Federations; THE STATUS QUO AND THE DISTRIBUTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
- THE BALANCE BETWEEN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND MOBILITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DEPRESSIONTHE POLITICAL PROCESS: A COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW; Preference Heterogeneity and Initial Responses; Divergent Approaches to Unemployment Insurance: The Political Processes; THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS; 6: Germany's Reunification: Distributive Tensions and Fiscal Structures under Centripetal Representation; GERMANY'S FISCAL STRUCTURE BEFORE REUNIFICATION: THE EXISTING INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN; THE IMPACT OF REUNIFICATION ON GERMANY'S ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY.
- THE INITIAL YEARS (1990-1994):THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INCORPORATION OF THE EAST.