The political geography of inequality : regions and redistribution /

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This book addresses two questions - why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of the origin o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beramendi, Pablo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Temas:
Regionalism.
Equality.
Comparative government.
Régionalisme.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Economic history > Regional disparities.
European Union countries > Economic conditions > Regional disparities.
North America > Economic conditions > Regional disparities.
Pays de l'Union européenne > Conditions économiques > Disparités régionales.
Amérique du Nord > Conditions économiques > Disparités régionales.
European Union countries.
North America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Regions and redistributions: introduction and overview
  • A theory of fiscal structures in political unions
  • The road ahead: the empirical strategy
  • The European Union: economic geography and fiscal structures under centrifugal representation
  • North America's divide: distributive tensions, risk sharing, and the centralization of public insurance in federations
  • Germany's reunification: distributive tensions and fiscal structures and under centripetal representation
  • Endogenous decentralization and welfare resilience: Spain, 1978-2007
  • The legacy of history
  • The political geography of inequality: summary and implications.

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