Title The political geography of inequality : regions and redistribution / Pablo Beramendi

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. Contents List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Regions and redistributions: introduction and overview -- A theory of fiscal structures in political unions -- The road ahead: the empirical strategy -- The European Union: economic geography and fiscal structures under centrifugal representation -- North America's divide: distributive tensions, risk sharing, and the centralization of public insurance in federations -- Germany's reunification: distributive tensions and fiscal structures and under centripetal representation -- Endogenous decentralization and welfare resilience: Spain, 1978-2007 -- The legacy of history -- The political geography of inequality: summary and implications Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Best Book Award given for the best book on European Politics and society from the European Politics section of APSA, 2013 Subject Regionalism. Equality. Comparative government. PHILOSOPHY -- Political. Comparative government Economic history -- Regional disparities Equality Regionalism SUBJECT European Union countries -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities North America -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities European Economic Community countries -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities Subject European Union countries North America Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139336710 1139336711 9781139042796 1139042793

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