Limits to redistribution in late democratic transitions: the case of Spain
Fecha
2018Autor
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Capítulo de libro / Liburuen kapitulua
Versión
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1007/978-3-319-90263-0_13
Resumen
This chapter reviews the experience of one country from the European periphery, Spain, in the period 1960 to 1990. It addresses the possibilities to build up an operative welfare state after recent democratization¿past the golden age of economic growth in Western economies, and during the second globalization. The new context made it difficult to develop determined redistributive policies where t ...
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This chapter reviews the experience of one country from the European periphery, Spain, in the period 1960 to 1990. It addresses the possibilities to build up an operative welfare state after recent democratization¿past the golden age of economic growth in Western economies, and during the second globalization. The new context made it difficult to develop determined redistributive policies where they had been absent before. Economic distress, increasing capital mobility, and new tax ideas challenged the chances of progressive taxation. Furthermore, the recent dictatorship cast long-lasting shadows in the new representative institutions. This study of the Spanish experience is thus an analysis of time-specific and polity-specific constraints on redistribution, which other new democracies might have faced or could encounter in the near future. [--]
Materias
Spain,
Democratization,
Tax reform,
Enrique Fuentes Quintana,
Francisco Fernández Ordóñez,
Redistribution
Editor
Palgrave Macmillan
Publicado en
Huerlimann, G.; Brownlee, W. E.; Ide, E. (Eds.). Worlds of Taxation: The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945. Londres: PALGRAVE; 2018. p. 321-347 978-3-319-90263-0
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
The author acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education's scholarship program Formacion del Profesorado Universitario and Research Project ECO2012-39169-C03-03.