Fiscal Fragmentation in Decentralized Countries: Subsidiarity, Solidarity and AsymmetryRichard Miller Bird, Robert D. Ebel Edward Elgar, 2007 - 440 páginas Most countries, developed and developing, are fiscally decentralized with regional and local governments of varying importance. In many of these countries, some of these sub-national governments differ substantially from others in terms of wealth, ethnic, religious, or linguistic composition. This book considers how fiscal arrangements may strengthen or weaken national solidarity and the effectiveness with which public services are provided. In particular, the nation's ability to cope with changes created by decentralization is explored. 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 will readers concerned with the public policy of the many fiscally fragmented countries profiled here. |
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Bird Robert D Ebel and Sebastiana Gianci | 26 |
The Role | 49 |
Germany at the Junction Between Solidarity and Subsidiarity | 97 |
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Aceh administrative Alberta allocation ARMM asymmetric federalism asymmetric treatment autonomy average Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Brussels capital region budget Canada Canadian cantons capacity capita cent central government centre China constitution countries Croat disparities diverse East Nusa Tenggara economic effective efficiency equalization ernment example expenditures federal government Finance fiscal decentralization fiscal federalism Flemish Flemish region French-speaking Community functions funds Government Code grants Guizhou implementation important income tax increased Indonesia institutions intergovernmental fiscal relations issues Kalimantan levels of government LGUs major ment Mindanao municipalities Muslim NAAS oblast Ontario Papua parties Philippines political population programs provinces public services Qinghai Quebec reform regional government responsibilities result RGDP Russia Russian Federation sector Serb Republic share social security solidarity Source structure subnational governments subsidiarity Sulawesi Switzerland Table tax competition tax rates taxation territory tion transfers Wallonia Walloon region World Bank Xinjiang
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