Handbook of Fiscal Federalism
This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of 'fiscal federalism', providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors include leading lights in the field, many of whom have themselves made seminal contributions to the literature.

Comprehensive and wide in coverage, the issues covered range from federal systems to other forms of intergovernmental relations, such as supra-national constructs - namely, the European Union - unitary states, regional systems, and more decentralized operations, including community level organizations. The political economy approach emphasizes the importance of institutional arrangements, including the legal, political and administrative aspects, and information flows to ensure that there are appropriate incentives and sanctions to generate good governance.

This Handbook also devotes attention to emerging issues, such as environmental protection, the sharing of natural resources among levels of government, corruption and the impact of federalism and decentralization on national unity. It will be a vital reference tool for the area for many years to come.

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Handbook of Fiscal Federalism
This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of 'fiscal federalism', providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors include leading lights in the field, many of whom have themselves made seminal contributions to the literature.

Comprehensive and wide in coverage, the issues covered range from federal systems to other forms of intergovernmental relations, such as supra-national constructs - namely, the European Union - unitary states, regional systems, and more decentralized operations, including community level organizations. The political economy approach emphasizes the importance of institutional arrangements, including the legal, political and administrative aspects, and information flows to ensure that there are appropriate incentives and sanctions to generate good governance.

This Handbook also devotes attention to emerging issues, such as environmental protection, the sharing of natural resources among levels of government, corruption and the impact of federalism and decentralization on national unity. It will be a vital reference tool for the area for many years to come.

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Handbook of Fiscal Federalism

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This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of 'fiscal federalism', providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors include leading lights in the field, many of whom have themselves made seminal contributions to the literature.

Comprehensive and wide in coverage, the issues covered range from federal systems to other forms of intergovernmental relations, such as supra-national constructs - namely, the European Union - unitary states, regional systems, and more decentralized operations, including community level organizations. The political economy approach emphasizes the importance of institutional arrangements, including the legal, political and administrative aspects, and information flows to ensure that there are appropriate incentives and sanctions to generate good governance.

This Handbook also devotes attention to emerging issues, such as environmental protection, the sharing of natural resources among levels of government, corruption and the impact of federalism and decentralization on national unity. It will be a vital reference tool for the area for many years to come.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847209610
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 11/30/2008
Series: Elgar Original Reference Series
Pages: 584
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, London School of Economics, UK, Chinese Academy of Fiscal Science and Zhejiang University, China and Giorgio Brosio, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin, Italy

Table of Contents

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction: Fiscal Federalism – A Review of Developments in the Literature and Policy
Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio

PART I: APPROACHES TO FISCAL FEDERALISM
1. The Political Economy of Decentralization
Ben Lockwood

2. Horizontal Competition Among Governments
Pierre Salmon

3. Modelling Vertical Competition
Albert Breton

4. Spatial Interactions Among Governments
Frederico Revelli

5. Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization
Roger D. Congleton

6. Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJ): A Complement and Alternative to Today’s Federalism
Reiner Eichenberger and Bruno S. Frey

7. Contract Federalism
Paul Bernd Spahn

PART II: DECENTRALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
8. Decentralization and Development
Pranab Bardhan

9. Fiscal Federalism in Planned Economies
Govinda Rao

10. Decentralization and Service Delivery
Junaid Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

PART III: IMPLEMENTING MULTILEVEL FISCAL SYSTEMS
11. The Assignment of Functions to Decentralized Government: From Theory to Practice
Bernard Dafflon

12. Normative Versus Positive Theories of Revenue Assignments in Federations
Maria Flavia Ambrosiano and Massimo Bordignon

13. Tax Competition in a Federal Setting
John D. Wilson

14. Intergovernmental Redistributive Transfers: Efficiency and Equity
Robin Boadway

15. On the Implementation of Transfers to Subnational Governments
Ehtisham Ahmad and Bob Searle

16. Subnational Public Financial Management: Institutions and Macroeconomic Considerations
Ehtisham Ahmad, Maria Albino-War and Raju Singh

PART IV: EMERGING ISSUES
17. The Assignment of Revenue from Natural Resources
Giorgio Brosio

18. Decentralization and the Environment
Silvana Dalmazzone

19. Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance
Anwar Shah

20. Fiscal Federalism and National Unity
Richard M. Bird and Robert D. Ebel

21. Institutions of Federalism and Decentralized Government
Brian Galligan

Index
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