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Decentralized Governance and Climate Change
Av Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Paul Smoke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2420 kr
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This book sheds light on the underexamined roles of subnational governments (SNGs) in mitigating and responding to climate change issues. Drawing on scientific, institutional, fiscal and political perspectives, it provides novel insights into the governance of the crucial intersection between …
Meeting Future Global Challenges of Fiscal Decentralization
Av Roy Bahl, Paul Smoke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2492 kr
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This book explores current, emerging and potential future challenges to global fiscal decentralization efforts from a public finance and interdisciplinary perspective. Blending insights from academic research and practical experience, leading experts examine the state of fiscal decentralization and …
Fiscal Constitutionalism and the Power of the Purse
Comparative Perspectives on Budgetary Authority
Av Cheol Liu, Yeonseob Ha
Inbunden, 2027
1693 kr
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Addressing the fundamental democratic question of who should control public money, this instructive book presents insights from the experience of constitutional reform in a diverse set of developed countries. It examines how budgetary power is allocated between the executive branches and why such …
Challenge of Local Government Size
Theoretical Perspectives, International Experience and Policy Reform
Av Santiago Lago-Peñas, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Inbunden, 2013
1954 kr
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In the efficient delivery of local public services, size matters. Many countries around the world have vertical government structures that are perceived as inefficient because of their high levels of jurisdictional fragmentation. This timely volume examines the different strategies used to address …
Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?
Essays in Honor of Roy Bahl
Av Richard M. Bird, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Inbunden, 2014
2758 kr
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Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus on developing and applying new modeling techniques to …
Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control
Inbunden, 2016
1747 kr
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How can governments control spending pressure from influential groups, often representing powerful regional interests? This book is concerned with institutional solutions that allow modern nation states to balance historically grown cultural, political and economic diversity.Laura von Daniels …
State and Local Financial Instruments
Policy Changes and Management
Av Craig L. Johnson, Martin J. Luby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1920 kr
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The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal federalist system, where subnational …
Multi-level Finance and the Euro Crisis
Causes and Effects
Av Ehtisham Ahmad, Massimo Bordignon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2492 kr
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Representing a unique contribution to the analysis and discussion of the unfolding Eurozone crisis in terms of the relationship between central and local government, this book addresses a number of important fiscal and political economy questions. To what extent have local and regional governments …
Future of Federalism
Intergovernmental Financial Relations in an Age of Austerity
Av Richard Eccleston, Richard Krever
Inbunden, 2017
2419 kr
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The global financial crisis had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this illuminating book show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institutional change in federal systems. The Future of …
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries
Development from Below
Inbunden, 2018
2864 kr
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As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with them have evolved. This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of …
Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism
A Fine Balance
Av Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1798 kr
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Scholars and practitioners have long hailed fiscal federalism as a critical tool for improving government services, but it has not always lived up to its promise when applied in specific countries. This book offers both an explanation for such mixed effects and a roadmap for better outcomes in the …
Federalism in China and Russia
Story of Success and Story of Failure?
Av Alexander Libman, Michael Rochlitz
Inbunden, 2019
1746 kr
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Based on the synthesis of a large empirical and theoretical literature on center-region relations in China and Russia, Federalism in China and Russia is one of the first attempts to integrate this literature from different disciplines into a coherent common framework. Libman and Rochlitz argue that …
Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations
Inbunden, 2020
2418 kr
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In a multi-level government system institutional legacy and the assignment of roles and responsibilities between the federal and the subnational governments create imbalances. These imbalances in economic terms are a result of a mismatch between revenue-raising capacity and the spending …
State and Local Financial Instruments
Policy Changes and Management: Second Edition
Av Craig L. Johnson, Martin J. Luby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2004 kr
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The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This second edition of State and Local Financial Instruments covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing …
Tools for State and Local Fiscal Management
From Policy Design to Practice
Av Alex Hathaway, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2226 kr
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Governments have always endured economic woes, but the increasing severity of such challenges, from the Great Recession starting in 2008 to the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights the need for better-developed fiscal analysis capacity in governments of all sizes using the most …
New Democratic Federalism For Europe
Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions
Inbunden, 1999
1746 kr
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This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future developments arising in the region are coped with better.In …
Fiscal Federalism in Russia
Intergovernmental Transfers and the Financing of Education
Inbunden, 2000
1800 kr
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Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has experienced a process of rapid fiscal decentralisation: its 88 regions are now in charge of almost half of total budgetary expenditure, while an overhaul of the revenue allocation system has given them substantial control over locally …
Political Economy of Local Government
Leadership, Reform and Market Failure
Av Brian E. Dollery, Joe L. Wallis
Inbunden, 2001
1885 kr
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In recent decades, local government has become increasingly complex. The Political Economy of Local Government draws upon recent developments in economics, including new institutional economics, and contemporary advances in the theories of social capital and leadership, in order to explain local …
Federal Intergovernmental Grants and the States
Managing Devolution
Inbunden, 2002
1747 kr
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This book provides a long-term perspective on policies regarding intergovernmental grants in the US since the 1970s. This period spans six presidential administrations and encompasses a diverse set of political and economic conditions. Containing original research, this book contributes to critical …
Political Economy in Federal States
Selected Essays of Stanley L. Winer
Inbunden, 2002
2299 kr
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Federal states are lively sources of data on the economics and politics of the public sector. In this rich collection of essays, some of which are previously unpublished, Stanley Winer makes use of these data from Canada, the United States and Australia to explore a variety of issues including: the …
Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries
Essays in Honor of Richard Bird
Av Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, James Alm
Inbunden, 2003
2492 kr
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It is hard to think of anyone who has contributed so much and so widely to research in international public finance in the last 40 years as has Richard Bird. This volume of essays emerged from a conference dedicated to him. It also expands on our understanding of international public …
State and Local Finances under Pressure
Inbunden, 2003
2333 kr
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State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and …
Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries
Lessons from South Africa
Av Roy Bahl, Paul Smoke
Inbunden, 2003
2247 kr
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Examining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apartheid. The 1996 Constitution and subsequent legislation …
Property Tax, Land Use and Land Use Regulation
Av Dick Netzer
Inbunden, 2003
2456 kr
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Dick Netzer, a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government, brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for …
City Taxes, City Spending
Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer
Inbunden, 2004
2264 kr
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An illustrious group of economists contribute to this volume honoring Dick Netzer, the public finance economist well-known for his research on state and local taxation, the provision of urban public services, and non-profit organizations. Following in his tradition, the contributors apply …
Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia
The ‘Big Bang’ Program and its Economic Consequences
Av James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2403 kr
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Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ranging consequences. This edited volume presents original …
New Democratic Federalism For Europe
Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions
Häftad, 2004
534 kr
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This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future developments arising in the region are coped with better.In …
Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
Towards a Comparative Interdisciplinary Perspective
Av Paul Smoke, Eduardo J. Gómez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2598 kr
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Although decentralization and reactions against it have become increasingly important policy trends in developing countries, the study of this nearly ubiquitous phenomenon has been largely fractured across academic disciplines, geographic regions, and the academic-practitioner divide. The …
Competition in the Provision of Local Public Goods
Single Function Jurisdictions and Individual Choice
Av Alexandra Petermann Reifschneider
Inbunden, 2006
2066 kr
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The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them. …
Politics and Economics of Regional Transfers
Decentralization, Interregional Redistribution and Income Convergence
Inbunden, 2007
1800 kr
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Which programmes of income redistribution across jurisdictions are likely to be chosen in democratic countries and why? How does the degree of government centralization affect these choices? How does redistribution of income across regions interact with the migration of factors of production? Do …
