Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction; PART 1 OLD AND NEW FEDERALISMS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT; 1 Macroeconomic Challenges of Fiscal Decentralization in Latin America: The Case of Argentina and Brazil; 2 Federalism and Oil: The Challenges of Intergovernmental Revenue-sharing in Argentina and Brazil; 3 The Rise and Characteristics of Coercive Federalism in the United States; 4 The Success and Challenges of the US Federal System: State-Local Finances
PART 2 OLD AND RECENT FEDERALISMS IN EUROPE5 Swiss Fiscal Federalism: New Roads after the Reforms of the Constitution; 6 Fiscal Equalization in Germany: Facts, Conflicts and Perspectives; 7 An End of Federalism without Revenue-Autonomy? The Effects of Fiscal Equalization and the New Debt Brake for the German Länder; PART 3 THE DESIRED AUTONOMY (OR INDEPENDENCE?); 8 The Debate on Fiscal Decentralization in Scotland; 9 Fiscal Decentralization for Scotland: Risks and Consequences for the UK; 10 Spanish Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism
11 The Relation Catalonia/Spain: Some Financial and Economic Aspects12 Autonomy and Asymmetry in the Italian Legal System: The Case of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen; 13 The Italian Regions with Special Autonomy and the Case of Trentino-Alto-Adige; Conclusions; Index
