Pablo Beramendi

Political Geography of Inequality (eBook, PDF)

Regions and Redistribution

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139334976
• Artikelnr.: 38279716

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.