The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution

by Pablo Beramendi

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110763721X
• ISBN13: 9781107637214
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"