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Fiscal Centralization in the American States: Findings From Another Perspective
Author(s) -
Stonecash Jeffrey M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5850.00803
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , position (finance) , politics , sort , economics , section (typography) , state (computer science) , political economy , political science , law , business , finance , arithmetic , mathematics , advertising , geometry , algorithm
Studies of the determinants of fiscal centralization have produced conflicting results. The difficulty may lie in reliance on cross‐section analyses and their presumptions of the sources and nature of change. Studies of the current relative positions of political units ignore historical factors which may have “pushed” units away from some sort of normal position. An historical analysis of the American states demonstrates these points.