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FISCAL EQUALITY BETWEEN THE STATES: THE NEW ROLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION
Author(s) -
ElseMitchell R.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1979.tb00861.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , commission , character (mathematics) , politics , public administration , political science , government (linguistics) , political economy , economics , law , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
In a federal system few subjects are of such fundamental importance as the financial relations between the Central Government and the States or Provincial Governments. Not only, as Professor Giblin observed in 1926, 1 are those relations the chief determinant of the character of the Federation, but they also influence and perhaps determine both the political character of the union and the political colour from time to time of the governments of component members of the federation.