Fiscal Rules and Federal Capacity in American Fiscal History: Lessons for Europe?

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics and Governance Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI:10.17645/pag.v11i4.7230

Christakis Georgiou

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Recent comparative fiscal federalism work has noted how the US displays a mix of substantial federal capacity and no federal fiscal rules for sub-federal units as opposed to the EU’s mix of regulation and lack of capacity. The difference is explained by the lack of federal capacity in the EU case, which presumably creates a need for regulation. However, these studies are cross-sectional. This carries the obvious drawback of abstracting the actual political and historical processes that have given rise to the respective mixes of regulation and capacity in the two polities. In this article, I trace the historical process by which the specific mix of no rules and capacity became entrenched in the US in the second half of the 20th century and ask whether that political-economic history has any lessons for the EU today.

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美国财政史上的财政规则和联邦能力：欧洲的教训？

最近关于财政联邦制的比较研究指出，美国既表现出强大的联邦能力，又表现出对次联邦单位没有联邦财政规则，而欧盟则表现出既有监管又缺乏能力。在欧盟的案例中，这种差异可以用联邦能力的缺乏来解释，这大概创造了监管的需要。然而，这些研究是横断面的。这有一个明显的缺点，即抽象出导致两种政治中各自的监管和能力混合的实际政治和历史进程。在这篇文章中，我追溯了20世纪下半叶，无规则和能力的特定组合在美国根深蒂固的历史过程，并询问这段政治经济历史是否对今天的欧盟有任何借鉴意义。

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Politics and Governance POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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4.90

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16 weeks

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