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Claustre Obert: Joan Romero, 'Federalisme,independentisme,centralisme,autonomisme: el cas català'
2013
'Federalisme, fronteres i fractures socials a Europa' és el títol de la conferència que imparteix Joan Romero hui dimecres 5 de juny. En un context en què les fronteres geogràfiques, culturals, estatals, científiques i urbanes es posen en qüestió, l' espai de debat Claustre Obert, de la Universitat de València i 'El País', analitza les claus d'aquest fenomen en dues conferències.
Is the budget deficit sustainable when fiscal policy is non-linear? The case of Spain
2006
In this paper, we re-examine the long-run sustainability of budget deficits, when fiscal policy is conducted as a non-linear process. Our empirical methodology makes use of recent developments on threshold cointegration that consider the possibility of a non-linear relationship between government expenditures and revenues. The analysis is applied to the case of Spain, a country that has recently accomplished an important fiscal consolidation. Overall, our results suggest the presence of significant non-linear effects in Spanish fiscal policy, so that fiscal authorities would cut deficits only if they are ‘large’, which would assure in turn their long-run sustainability.
Deficit sustainability, and monetary versus fiscal dominance: The case of Spain, 1850–2000
2014
Abstract In this paper, we provide a test of the sustainability of the Spanish government deficit over the period 1850–2000, emphasizing the role played by monetary and fiscal dominance in order to get fiscal solvency. Since the condition of fiscal solvency was satisfied, government deficit would have been sustainable along the sample period. In addition, the whole period can be characterized as one of fiscal dominance.
The Economic Rationale of Fiscal Rules in OCAs: The Stability and Growth Pact and the Excessive Deficit Procedure
2013
This chapter examines the case of different regions within a single country that wish to share a common currency, even though they have divergent trends in unemployment, inflation, wages, non-wage costs and productivity. This situation compares with the case of a group of EU countries, each with its own decentralised national budget, that have established a monetary union and that are facing asymmetric shocks. As such an economic context requires fiscal commitments from national governments, we analyse the economic rationale of setting fiscal rules for a common currency area and the resulting EU institutional frame for the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and the Excessive Deficit Procedure …
Federalism and Party Democracy in West Germany
2011
According to Gerhard Lehmbruch, there is a growing inconsistency in West Germany between the principles of a federal polity and party democracy, primarily because the former relies on bargaining, and the latter relies on majority rule as a mechanism of conflict regulation. However, comparative analyses have shown that federalism and party competition are not incompatible. Generally, federal structures are neither detrimental nor conducive to the recruitment function of parties. Competence and experience as a parliamentary leader or as a specialist is the most essential precondition for advancement to national executive positions. The integrative capacities of political parties may even be s…
Monete fiscali e possibili applicazioni regionali: il caso Sicilia
2015
The chapter, within a book devoted to the fiscal money, treats of regional fiscal money. In doing this, it focuses two main topics. The former is the exploitation of a regional fiscal money, answering to the question if it is technically possible and economically convenient to issue fiscal money at a lower level than the state one. The latter concerns an Italian region in particular: Sicily, considered under many points of view as an OCA (Optimum Currency Area). The chapter explores, as well, the positive effects of introducing regional fiscal monies in underdevelopped regions and the value of them as a positive experiment, like in a laboratory, before extending them on a national basis.
Federalism, Cultural Policies, and Identity Pluralism: Cooperation and Conflict in the Spanish Quasi-Federal System
2014
The division of cultural policy between different levels of administration and the coordination between them in federal countries is a relatively neglected area of research, even though the cultural sphere always requires a balanced combination of autonomy and governance. A particularly interesting case of this equilibrium arises in Spain; often described as a quasi-federal system, both regarding its model of state and within the sphere of cultural policy. However, we demonstrate that, despite the broadly decentralized development of cultural administration in Spain—a plurinational and multicultural state—different recent judicial and political processes are distorting the quasi-federalism …
The Advisable Coordination of the Autonomic Environmental Taxation as Reluctance to the Development of Fiscal Federalism
2013
Approval of the “Ley Organica 3/2009” of the 18th of December and modification of the “Ley Organica 8/1980” of the 22nd of September, which concern the financing of the autonomic regions (LOFCA), reforms the regulation of the exercise of the financial system of the autonomic communities, modifying the article 6.3 LOFCA.
«La Croce di Savoia» e il liberalismo siciliano nel regno di Sardegna. 1850-51”
2007
L'articolo "La Croce di Savoia" e il liberalismo siciliano nel Regno di Sardegna: 1850-1851 ricostruisce l'esperienza editoriale del quotidiano che Francesco Ferrara fondò insieme a Emerico Amari e Vito D'Ondes Reggio nei primi anni del loro esilio dopo il fallimento della Rivoluzione del '48. Il giornale, che fu la voce dei liberali palermitani, intervenne vivacemente in tutti i principali dibattiti del Piemonte all'inizio della sua vita statutaria e divenne, anche se per breve tempo, protagonista nello scenario politico subalpino. La redazione si contraddistinse per la fiducia nel libero mercato, il sostegno alla realizzazione di un sistema politico rappresentativo, la richiesta di un amp…
Democracia, república y federación en época isabelina. Una aproximación al proyecto federal de Roque Barcia Martí = Democracy, Republic and Federatio…
2016
Este artículo propone una aproximación al proyecto federal defendido por Roque Barcia Martí a mediados del siglo XIX, prestando especial atención a los principios teóricos y los argumentos –inspirados por una fuerte religiosidad– que sustentan su propuesta. Más allá de la estricta cuestión territorial o de las plasmaciones jurídico-políticas concretas, la federación aparece como una solución global a las tensiones de la modernidad que el Estado liberal no sabía solucionar. En este planteamiento, el campo político se configura como un espacio de humanización que reclama, como punto de partida, la necesaria reformulación política del Estado para transformar la sociedad y, potencialmente, la h…