Financing Autonomus Governments in Spain: Two Alternative Visions

The evolution of the Spanish "State of Autonomies" has been strongly marked from the outset by the problems posed by the financing of the Autonomous Communities (henceforth, ACs). To some extent, this is only to be expected. All political systems built around different levels of government...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Castells, Antoni (Castells Oliveres)
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/123181
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/123181
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Política de despeses públiques
Comunitats autònomes
Espanya
Government spending policy
Autonomous communities
Spain
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Sumario:The evolution of the Spanish "State of Autonomies" has been strongly marked from the outset by the problems posed by the financing of the Autonomous Communities (henceforth, ACs). To some extent, this is only to be expected. All political systems built around different levels of government, in which political power is shared between a central government and intermediate governments, inevitably generate two types of tension. On the one hand, there is the tension that exists between the central government and the whole ACs and which is generated by the distribution of this political power as it relates to all financial matters.[...]