The Political Geography of Inequality
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The Political Geography of Inequality

Regions and Redistribution

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eBook - PDF

The Political Geography of Inequality

Regions and Redistribution

About this book

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 of fiscal structures in systems with several levels of government. The argument points to two major factors to account for the variation in redistribution: the interplay between economic geography and political representation on the one hand, and the scope of interregional economic externalities on the other. To test the empirical implications derived from the argument, the book relies on in-depth studies of the choice of fiscal structures in unions as diverse as the European Union, Canada and the United States in the aftermath of the Great Depression; Germany before and after Reunification; and Spain after the transition to democracy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Figures
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1: Regions and Redistribution: Introduction and Overview
  12. 2: A Theory of Fiscal Structures in Political Unions
  13. 3: The Road Ahead: The Empirical Strategy
  14. 4: The European Union: Economic Geography and Fiscal Structures under Centrifugal Representation
  15. 5: North America's Divide: Distributive Tensions, Risk Sharing, and the Centralization of Public Insurance in Federations
  16. 6: Germany's Reunification: Distributive Tensions and Fiscal Structures under Centripetal Representation
  17. 7: Endogenous Decentralization and Welfare Resilience: Spain, 1978–2007
  18. 8: The Legacy of History
  19. 9: The Political Geography of Inequality: Summary and Implications
  20. Appendix A: Chapter 2
  21. Appendix B: Chapter 4
  22. Appendix C: Chapter 7
  23. Appendix D: Chapter 8 – Sources and Descriptive Statistics
  24. References
  25. Index