Federalism, Horizontal Equity, and the Optimal Grant
Federalism is often argued to produce a particular problem in designing hori-Abstract zontal equity policy that may be partially overcome by the use of intergovernmental grants. The nature of the federal equity problem is reconsidered; it is argued that only a specific subclass offederations suffer from an inherent equity problem and that in these cases, the use of grants is a necessary part of the problem rather than its solution. The specific choice ofgrant is reconsidered in the context of simple majority voting on local issues to illustrate a difficulty in the identification of the optimal grant.
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1985
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Authors: | Hamlin, Alan P. |
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Public Finance Review. - Vol. 13.1985, 2, p. 115-131
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