The Politics and Economics of Regional Transfers
Subtitle: Decentralization, Interregional Redistribution and Income Convergence (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; Edward Elgar
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781845426668
Subjects: Economics; Public Finance; Business & Economics; Fiscal policy; Income distribution; Business/Economics
Description: "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 these processes reinforce or do they obstruct each other, and why? This book tries to answer these questions and others related to the issue of income redistribution across states and regions." "The book adopts a positive, public choice approach in the theoretical analysis and tests the predictions on evidence drawn from a highly centralized country (Italy) and a highly decentralized one (the United States). The Politics and Economics of Regional Transfers will be of great interest to scholars of economics, public finance and public choice. Students of economics, economic development, political economy, regional and local economics, public finance and public choice will also find it of interest, as will policy analysts."--Jacket.