Territorial Politics in Hard Times: The Welfare State under Pressure in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Territorial Politics in Hard Times: The Welfare State under Pressure in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
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困难时期的领土政治：德国、西班牙和英国压力下的福利国家
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2010
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S. Greer
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S. Greer
作者认为，分权政治制度的设计塑造了经济危机对福利国家的影响。他提出了一个简单的框架来理解危机对地区政府责任领域的影响：它们的反应和调解效果将因金融体系、地区对中央决策的投入程度和法律的框架而异。此外，随着政府相对资源和信誉的变化，领土政治机构传导经济压力的方式应导致领土政治的变化。作者讨论了领土政治制度对德国、西班牙和英国应对经济危机的影响。它的结论是，德国是最有可能继续不变，西班牙可能会看到最硬的着陆，由于许多地区政府的财政困难，在英国的权力下放是经济上可持续的，并限制了负面的福利国家的影响，但可能是政治上不可持续的。结论表明，福利国家的分析应该更多地考虑到具体的领土政治机构，进一步的分析应该包括地方政府，经济压力可能会重塑领土政治至少在一些国家。
The author argues that the design of decentralized political institutions shapes the effect of economic crisis on the welfare state. He proposes a simple framework for understanding the effects of crisis on areas under the responsibility of regional governments: their responses and mediating effects will vary with the financial system, degree of regional input into central decisions, and legal framework. Further, the ways in which territorial political institutions channel economic pressures should lead to changing territorial politics as the relative resources and credibility of governments change. The author discusses the influence of territorial political institutions on responses to economic crisis in Germany, Spain, and the UK. It is concluded that Germany is most likely to proceed unchanged, Spain might see the hardest landing due to the difficult finances of many regional governments, and devolution in the UK is economically sustainable and limits negative welfare-state effects but might be politically unsustainable. The conclusion suggests that welfare-state analysis should take more account of specific territorial political institutions, that further analysis should include local government, and that economic pressure might reshape territorial politics in at least some countries.