Jonathan M. Rodden

Hamilton's Paradox

The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why different countries have had dramatically different experiences with subnational fiscal discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780521842693
• ISBN-10: 0521842697
• Artikelnr.: 21956755

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Rodden is the Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT, and was recently a visiting scholar at the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, his B.A. from the University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Leipzig. In collaboration with the World Bank, he recently co-edited a book entitled Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (MIT Press 2003). His articles have appeared in journals including The American Journal of Political Science, The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Organization, The Virginia Law Review, and World Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview
2. Promise and peril: intellectual history
3. Sovereignty and commitment
4. The power of the purse: intergovernmental grants and fiscal discipline
5. Disease or cure? Political parties and fiscal discipline
6. An approach to comparative case studies
7. Fiscal federalism and bailouts in postwar Germany
8. The crisis of fiscal federalism in Brazil
9. The challenge of reform in federations
10. The origins of subnational sovereignty
11. Conclusions.