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The political economy of financing Scottish government : considering a new constitutional settlement for Scotland / C. Paul Hallwood and Ronald MacDonald

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance | Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 146 p) : illISBN:
  • 9781848449183
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781848440425 (hardback) | 1848440421 (hbk.) | Erscheint auch als: The political economy of financing Scottish government. Druck-Ausgabe Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2009. XIV, 146 S.DDC classification:
  • 336.411 22
RVK: RVK: QL 010LOC classification:
  • HJ1039.6
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781848449183Online resources: Summary: Can the UK survive widespread dissatisfaction in both Scotland and England with the financing of public spending by Scotland's parliament? This timely book explains how fiscal autonomy could raise economic growth and efficiency in Scotland- to the benefit of both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The authors discuss how other reform proposals - which amount to cutting Scotland's block grant - would fail as they would not be seen in Scotland as legitimate. They conclude that fiscal autonomy would be accepted as it reduces Scotland's democratic deficit in public spending, and would go a long way toward reducing vertical and horizontal imbalances in the UKSummary: 1. Introduction -- 2. Searching for a politically and economically rational public funding model for Scotland -- 3. The economic case for fiscal devolution -- 4. Objectives of an effective fiscal federal system -- 5. Fiscal federalism : a Scottish perspective -- 6. The case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 7. A restatement of the case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 8. Fiscal devolution in some other countries -- 9. Empirical evidence : tax devolution and prosperity -- 10. A separate currency for Scotland? -- 11. ConclusionPPN: PPN: 1023444453Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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