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Comparing Fiscal Federalism investigates intergovernmental financial relations and the current de jure and de facto allocation of financial and fiscal powers in compound states from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. The volume combines theoretical approaches with case studies and involves scholars from various disciplines, in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of different approaches, developments and trends. This includes outlining fiscal federalism's basic principles and overall frameworks, investigating current constitutional/legislative settings and how financial systems function, as well as zooming in on a selection of emerging issues in financial and fiscal relations. The single chapters are based on comparative investigations under the umbrella of a broad definition of fiscal federalism that includes all varieties of federal systems.
Contents
Preface
List of Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Methodological Approach and Structure of This Book
Alice Valdesalici and Francesco Palermo
Part 1: Framework and Principles
1 Defining Fiscal Federalism
Alice Valdesalici
2 From a Formal to a Substantial Approach: Sources of Law and Fiscal Federalism
Sara Parolari
3 Financial Autonomy vs. Solidarity: A Dialogue between Two Complementary Opposites
Cheryl Saunders
4 The Practicalities of Economic Federalism: A Critical Review of How to Apply the Lessons of Fiscal Autonomy in Practice
Andrew Hughes Hallett
5 The Principles of Separation and Correspondence, the Comparative Method, and the Problem of Semantic Change
Matteo Nicolini
Part 2:Foundations
Section 1: The Distribution of Powers
6 Accountability and Revenue Assignment across Levels of Government: Rules, Practices, and Challenges
Maria Flavia Ambrosanio, Paolo Balduzzi and Claudia Peiti
7 Taxing Powers of Subnational Entities: Between Domestic and Supranational Constraints
Gisela Färber
8 Can Lessons from Equalisation Transfers in Industrial Countries be Applied to Reforms in Emerging-Market Countries?
Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio
9 Fiscal Decentralisation and Decentralising Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers
Richard M. Bird
Section 2: Intergovernmental Financial Relations
10 Intergovernmental Financial Relations: Institutions, Rules, and Praxis
Elisabeth Alber
11 Accommodating Diversity While Guaranteeing Stability: The Role of Financial Arrangements
Annika Kress
Part 3: New Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism
12 Local Governments in African Federal and Devolved Systems of Government: The Struggle for a Balance between Financial and Fiscal Autonomy and Discipline
Nico Steytler and Zemelak Ayele
13 Fiscal Sovereignty in a Globalised World: The Pressure of European Economic Governance on Domestic Public Finance
Jan Schnellenbach
14 Fiscal Federalism in Times of Crisis: An Iron Law of Centralisation?
Karl Kössler and Martina Trettel
15 Comparative Research and Fiscal Federalism
Ronald L. Watts
16 A Post Scriptum to Ron Watts: The Trajectory of Fiscal Federalism
Francesco Palermo