The political geography of inequality : regions and redistribution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beramendi, Pablo
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Subjects:	Regionalism. Equality. European Union countries > Economic conditions > Regional disparities. North America > Economic conditions > Regional disparities. Comparative government. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.