In this article, German federalism is analyzed through its implications for public spending and for public revenue. The structure of government spending and taxation has evolved in the direction of greater centralisation. This tendency reveals itself (1) in the constitutional changes with regard to taxation, (2) the major territorial reforms and (3) in the increased influence of the federal state on the public spending of inferior levels of government. The evening out between authorities is too egalitarian and the effects on economic development are nefarious. In contrast to a unitary system with a powerful central government, this cooperative federation suffers from a drawback, namely, that the federal state can often not make decisions wi...
Contents: 1 Introduction; 2 Bismarckian social legislation as a federalist compromise; 3 Weimar and ...
The article deals with the relationship between the bonds created by the integration process with ec...
In federal states with territorially based ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages, the allocation...
Article by Professor Dr Jur Ulrich Karpen (Hamburg) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Soci...
Since the late 1970s, but especially since Unification in 1990, the German federal system has come u...
The prospect of monetary union has renewed an interest in an old theme of the economic and political...
At the end of the recent reform process of the German federalism, the Länder gained some of the poli...
The completion of the Single Market together with the monetary union perspective are transforming th...
The article describes the evolution of the financial relations between the Federation and states (Lä...
While the German federal fiscal system has been successful in promoting a high standard of living ev...
The unique characteristics of Germany’s federalism have been long identified as one of the main obst...
JEL codes: H71, H23http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_REVUE=REOF&ID_NUMPUBLIE=REOF_094&ID_ARTICLE...
In 2009, the second stage of reform of Germany’s fiscal federalism passed both chambers of parliamen...
The thesis "Financial Equalization of German Federal States - a Key German Domestic Political Issue ...
Conventional wisdom strongly suggests that federalism is inimical to high levels of social spending....
Contents: 1 Introduction; 2 Bismarckian social legislation as a federalist compromise; 3 Weimar and ...
The article deals with the relationship between the bonds created by the integration process with ec...
In federal states with territorially based ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages, the allocation...
Article by Professor Dr Jur Ulrich Karpen (Hamburg) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Soci...
Since the late 1970s, but especially since Unification in 1990, the German federal system has come u...
The prospect of monetary union has renewed an interest in an old theme of the economic and political...
At the end of the recent reform process of the German federalism, the Länder gained some of the poli...
The completion of the Single Market together with the monetary union perspective are transforming th...
The article describes the evolution of the financial relations between the Federation and states (Lä...
While the German federal fiscal system has been successful in promoting a high standard of living ev...
The unique characteristics of Germany’s federalism have been long identified as one of the main obst...
JEL codes: H71, H23http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_REVUE=REOF&ID_NUMPUBLIE=REOF_094&ID_ARTICLE...
In 2009, the second stage of reform of Germany’s fiscal federalism passed both chambers of parliamen...
The thesis "Financial Equalization of German Federal States - a Key German Domestic Political Issue ...
Conventional wisdom strongly suggests that federalism is inimical to high levels of social spending....
Contents: 1 Introduction; 2 Bismarckian social legislation as a federalist compromise; 3 Weimar and ...
The article deals with the relationship between the bonds created by the integration process with ec...
In federal states with territorially based ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages, the allocation...