The Political Geography of Inequality : Regions and Redistribution.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Comparative PoliticsPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139340038Subject(s): Comparative government | Equality | European Union countries -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities | North America -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities | RegionalismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Political Geography of Inequality : Regions and RedistributionDDC classification: 320.12 LOC classification: JF197 .B47 2012Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Regions and Redistribution: Introduction and Overview -- PUZZLES: THE DOMINANT VIEW AND ITS LIMITS -- OVERVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT -- CHALLENGES AND THE ROAD AHEAD -- Economic Geography and Preferences -- Mobility and Fiscal Structures -- From Preferences to Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Political Representation -- THE BOOK'S CONTRIBUTIONS -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- 2: A Theory of Fiscal Structures in Political Unions -- THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: ELEMENTS AND PREMISES -- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND PREFERENCES FOR FISCAL STRUCTURES -- The Geography of Income Inequality and Preferences for Fiscal Structures -- The Geography of Risk and Preferences for Fiscal Structures -- MOBILITY AND THE ORGANIZATION OF FISCAL STRUCTURES: INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION AS INSURANCE TO PROTECT AUTONOMY -- FROM PREFERENCES TO CHOICES: REPRESENTATION AND THE CHOICE OF FISCAL STRUCTURES -- SUMMARY OF HYPOTHESES -- What drives the (de)centralization of interpersonal redistribution? -- What explains the levels of interregional redistribution? -- 3: The Road Ahead: The Empirical Strategy -- UNION FORMATION AND FISCAL STRUCTURES -- EXOGENOUS CHANGES IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND MOBILITY -- POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND THE STATUS QUO: WHEN CAN POLITICAL REPRESENTATION BE TAKEN AS GIVEN? -- Endogenous Processes -- Natural Experiments -- SUMMARY: EMPIRICAL STRATEGY AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING -- 4: The European Union: Economic Geography and Fiscal Structures under Centrifugal Representation -- THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FISCAL STRUCTURE -- SUSTAINING AUTONOMY, MANAGING RISKS: THE LOGIC BEHIND EUROPE'S FISCAL STRUCTURE -- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE LIMITS TO INTERPERSONAL REDISTRIBUTION.
The Economic Geography of the Union -- Social Policy in the European Union: An Overview -- Assessing the Mechanisms: Economic Geography and Institutional Preferences in the EU -- MOBILITY AND INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION -- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 5: North America's Divide: Distributive Tensions, Risk Sharing, and the Centralization of Public Insurance in Federations -- THE STATUS QUO AND THE DISTRIBUTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- THE BALANCE BETWEEN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND MOBILITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DEPRESSION -- THE POLITICAL PROCESS: A COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW -- Preference Heterogeneity and Initial Responses -- Divergent Approaches to Unemployment Insurance: The Political Processes -- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 6: Germany's Reunification: Distributive Tensions and Fiscal Structures under Centripetal Representation -- GERMANY'S FISCAL STRUCTURE BEFORE REUNIFICATION: THE EXISTING INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN -- THE IMPACT OF REUNIFICATION ON GERMANY'S ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY -- THE INITIAL YEARS (1990-1994): THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INCORPORATION OF THE EAST -- Market Integration and Redistribution: Early Steps on Interpersonal and Interregional Redistribution -- Political Preferences and the Costs of Reunification: Interpersonal and Interregional Redistribution and the Solidarity Pact -- Interpersonal Redistribution -- Cost Allocation and Interregional Redistribution -- The Incorporation Effort: Quantitative Evidence -- BEYOND NATIONAL UNITY: CENTRIPETALISM AND DISTRIBUTIVE CONFLICTS AFTER REUNIFICATION (1995-2005) -- The Aftermath of Reunification: Quantitative Evidence -- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 7: Endogenous Decentralization and Welfare Resilience: Spain, 1978-2007 -- THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT AND THE EVOLUTION OF SPAINS FISCAL STRUCTURE.
Asymmetry of Access and Openness in the Distribution of Political Capacities -- Electoral Asymmetry and Centripetal Representation -- Absence of Institutionalized Cosovereignty: Regions Do Not Formally Participate in the Production of National Legislation -- Fiscal Asymmetry and the Status Quo -- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF FISCAL STRUCTURES -- ENDOGENOUS DECENTRALIZATION AND CHANGES TO THE STATUS QUO: THE PARTIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF FISCAL AUTONOMY AND THE RESILIENCE OF SOCIAL SECURITY -- The Partial Achievement of Fiscal Autonomy -- The Resilience of Social Security -- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 8: The Legacy of History -- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND INTERPERSONAL REDISTRIBUTION: POLITICAL CONTINGENCIES -- Inequality, Geography, and Preferences -- Inequality, Representation, and Fiscal Structures -- BEYOND THE OECD: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND INTERPERSONAL REDISTRIBUTION IN POLITICAL UNIONS AROUND THE WORLD -- Determinants of Interregional Inequalities -- Inequality, Representation, and Fiscal Structures in a Broader Sample -- FISCAL STRUCTURES AND THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY -- INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION IN POLITICAL UNIONS -- 9: The Political Geography of Inequality: Summary and Implications -- THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF INEQUALITY: ANALYTICAL SUMMARY OF FINDINGS -- The Origin of Preferences: The Role of Economic Geography (Hypothesis 1) -- From Preferences to Choices: The Role of Political Representation (Hypothesis 2) -- Interregional Transfers and Redistribution: Insurance and Capture (Hypothesis 3) -- The Dynamics of Inequality in Political Unions -- IMPLICATIONS: INEQUALITY AND STABILITY IN POLITICAL UNIONS -- SOME BROADER LESSONS AND THE ROAD AHEAD -- Appendix A: Chapter 2 -- THE DECISION TO PURSUE A CHANGE IN THE ORGANIZATION OF FISCAL STRUCTURES -- ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND PREFERENCES FOR REDISTRIBUTION.
The Geography of Income and Preferences for Fiscal Structures -- THE GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PREFERENCES -- Appendix B: Chapter 4 -- VARIABLE SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS -- Appendix C: Chapter 7 -- Appendix D: Chapter 8 - Sources and Descriptive Statistics -- References -- Index.
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