Pablo Beramendi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. His research focuses on the political economy of redistribution and inequality. Previously, he has taught at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and at the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. He is also a research associate at the Juan March Institute (Madrid) and a former research Fellow at the Science Center (Berlin). Among his published work are articles on the determinants of taxation and inequality; the role of inequality in shaping electoral turnout; and the relationship between federalism, inequality, and redistribution.
1. Regions and redistribution: introduction and overview; 2. A theory of
fiscal structures in political unions; 3. The road ahead: the empirical
strategy; 4. The European Union: economic geography and fiscal structures
under centrifugal representation; 5. North America's divide: distributive
tensions, risk sharing, and the centralization of public insurance in
federations; 6. Germany's reunification: distributive tensions and fiscal
structures under centripetal representation; 7. Endogenous decentralization
and welfare resilience: Spain, 1978-2007; 8. The political geography of
inequality: summary and implications.
