Territories of Inequality : How Federalism and Redistribution Interact.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacques, Olivier.

Contributor:

Noël, Alain.

Series:

Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series

Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series ; v.12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal government.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume analyses the effect of decentralization and federalism on policy outcomes and on public preferences, as well as the connections between fiscal federalism, political forces, and inequality.

Contents:

Cover

TERRITORIES OF INEQUALITY

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inequality and Redistribution across Territories

SECTION ONE: A TERRITORIAL APPROACH TO INEQUALITY

1 Is There a Trade-Off between Territorial and Interpersonal Redistribution?

2 On the Spatial Dimension of Redistributive Politics

SECTION TWO: THE ALLOCATION OF REDISTRIBUTION BY DIFFERENT ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT

3 Rescaling Welfare: The Rise of Meso Government and Distributive Politics in Europe

4 Contesting Jurisdiction: Social Policy Attributes and the Territorial Distribution of Competences in Federations

SECTION THREE: THE POLITICS OF INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION

5 Newcomers in Regions: Exploring the Impact of Regional Dynamics in Support of Inclusive Redistribution across Europe

6 The Partisan Politics of Fiscal Federalism in Canada

7 How Does Territorial Financial Redistribution Affect Nationalist and Regionalist Politics? Fiscal Federalism and Territorial Inequalities in Spain (Catalonia) and Canada (Alberta)

SECTION FOUR: FEDERALISM AND FIRST NATIONS

8 Some More Equal than Others: Authority and Jurisdiction in Settler Federations

9 Redistribution as Reconciliation: Identifying the Correlates of Settler Support for Redistributive Policies toward Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Federal System

SECTION FIVE: THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FORCES BEHIND TERRITORIAL REDISTRIBUTION AT THE SUBNATIONAL LEVEL

10 Making Redistribution Work: Civil Society and Subnational Inequality in Argentina

11 Subnational State Building, Alliances, and Inequality: Instrumentalizing Colonial and State-Led Territorial Occupation to Estimate Income Distribution in the Argentine Provinces.

12 Subnational Governments as Alternative Venues for Addressing Inequality in the United States

Conclusion: A New Research Agenda

Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

0-2280-2524-9

0-2280-2525-7

OCLC:

1528358622