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Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited

Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin
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What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questions.

Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin argue for a new approach—one methodologically focused on configurations of variables within cases rather than a fruitless attempt to isolate "the" effect of federalism; and one that is substantively engaged with identifying key elements in configurations as well as with when and how their interactions matter. Born out of their work on a multi-year, eleven-country project (published as Federalism and Social Policy: Patterns of Redistribution in Eleven Countries, University of Michigan Press, 2019), this book comprises a methodological and substantive agenda. Methodologically, the authors shift to studies that embraced and understood the complexity within which federal political institutions operate. Substantively, they make an argument for the importance of plurinationalism, changing economic interests, and institutional legacies.

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Why Should We Care about Federalism?
  • Chapter 2. Federalism, Territorial Politics, and Identities
  • Chapter 3. Interests, Nationalism, Regionalism, and Jurisdictionalism
  • Chapter 4. How Policies and Legacies Matter
  • Chapter 5. Federalism, Institutions, and Parties
  • Chapter 6. How to Analyze Federalism
  • Footnotes
  • References
  • Index
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Published: 2023
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90292-7 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-07554-6 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05554-8 (paper)
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  • Political Science:Public Policy
  • Political Science:Governance

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A U.S. federal building that sits astride the border between the states of Arkansas and Texas, with courthouses serving the two states on each side and a shared post office.

Texarkana Post Office and Federal Courthouse, Arkansas/Texas, USA

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Fig. 1. Texarkana Post Office and Federal Courthouse, Arkansas/Texas Source: Wikimedia Commons / Tony Webster (CC-BY 2.0).

Shows wide variation in both underlying income inequality and the impact of taxes and transfers; federations do not cluster in a way that implies federalism is correlated with either.

Percentage reduction of market income inequality due to taxes and transfers, 2007 – 2014 for OECD countries

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Fig. 2. Percentage reduction of market income inequality due to taxes and transfers, 2007–14, for OECD countries Source: Data from OECD Income Distribution Database.

Shows wide variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy by country, but no relationship to federalism.

Relationship between median household disposable income and difference in average life expectancy

From Chapter 1

Fig. 3. Relationship between median household disposable income and difference in average life expectancy Source: OECD household disposable income (indicator), https://doi.org/10.1787/dd50eddd-en; OECD Health Statistics.

Shows wide variation net social expenditures by country but no relationship to federalism.

Net social expenditures as percent of GDP, 2015

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Fig. 4. Net social expenditures as percentage of GDP (2015) Source: Data from OECD Social Expenditure Database.

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