Fiscal fragmentation in decentralized countries : subsidiarity, solidarity and asymmetry / edited by Richard M. Bird and Robert D. Ebel
- Bib ID:
- 3960611
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2007
- x, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781845424022
- 1845424026
- Summary:
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"Through a series of case studies, the countries of Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, Spain and Switzerland are examined with an eye to how their public finances are structured and how these arrangements act to promote equilibrium or turmoil in the nation state. This is the first detailed consideration of the link between asymmetry and intergovernmental finance, as well as the first detailed study of how asymmetrical fiscal arrangements work in practice in a variety of different countries." "Policy analysts concerned with intergovernmental finance and/or political legitimacy issues will find this synthesis of interest, as well readers concerned with the public policy of the many fiscally fragmented countries profiled here."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Subsidiary, solidarity and asymmetry : aspects of the problem / Richard M. Bird and Robert D. Ebel
- 2. The country studies : comparisons and conclusions / Richard M. Bird, Robert D. Ebel and Sebastiana Gianci
- 3. Reconciling diversity with equality : the role of intergovernmental fiscal arrangements in maintaining an effective state in Canada / Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt
- 4. Germany at the junction between solidarity and subsidiarity / Paul Bernd Spahn and Jan Werner
- 5. Accommodating asymmetry through pragmatism : an overview of Swiss fiscal federalism / Bernard Dafflon
- 6. Belgium : a unique evolving federalism / Benoit Bayenet and Philippe de Bruycker
- 7. Fiscal decentralization in Spain : an asymmetric transition to democracy / Teresa Garcia-Mila and Therese J. McGuire
- 8. Asymmetric federalism in Russia : cure or poison? / Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
- 9. Ethnic minority regions and fiscal decentralization in China : the promises and reality of asymmetric treatment / Christine Wong
- 10. Asymmetric federalism in India / M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh
- 11. Intergovernmental fiscal relations and state building : the case of Indonesia / Bambang Brodjonegoro and J. Fitz G. Ford
- 12. Subsidiarity and solidarity : fiscal decentralization in the Philippines / Christine Wallich, Rosario Manasan and Saloua Sehili
- 13. Fiscal federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina : subsidiarity and solidarity in a three-nation state / William Fox and Christine Wallich.
- Notes:
- Published in association with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
- Subject:
- Fiscal policy
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- Copyright:
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