The Political Economy of Financing Scottish Government
The Political Economy of Financing Scottish Government
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苏格兰政府融资的政治经济学
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2009
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通讯作者：
R. MacDonald
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作者：
C. Hallwood;R. MacDonald
苏格兰和英格兰对苏格兰议会为公共支出提供资金的做法普遍不满，英国能挺过去吗？这本及时的书解释了财政自治如何提高苏格兰的经济增长和效率--这对苏格兰和联合王国其他地区都有好处。作者讨论了其他改革提案--相当于削减苏格兰的整笔赠款--将如何失败，因为它们在苏格兰不会被视为合法。他们的结论是，财政自治将被接受，因为它减少了苏格兰在公共支出方面的民主赤字，并将大大有助于减少英国的纵向和横向失衡。
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 UK.