Fiscal Equalization in Spain

Carbonell, Jesús Ruiz-Huerta; Alcalde, Ana Herrero

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“…The huge drop of the central government share in 2000 for both primary and lower secondary education was due to the completion of the decentralization reform of the regions. This event was reflected in education finance (Carbonell, J., Alcalde A., 2008). In Canada, there is no federal agency responsible for education; each of the thirteen regional jurisdictions (provinces) is responsible for education in pre-elementary, elementary, and secondary education.…”

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Financial Inequity in Basic Education in Selected OECD Countries

Mizunoya¹,

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Tsang

2011

IES

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This is a study of financial disparities in primary and secondary education in OECD countries that have a relatively large population and a school finance system with decentralized features. These countries include the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain, Canada, and Japan. There are two major research questions: What are the trends in disparities in per-student education spending during the 1990s and early 2000s period? What government policies or factors may explain these trends? Common statistics such as the coefficient of variation, the restricted range, the federal range ratio, and Gini coefficient are used to measure disparity in per-student spending. Sub-national data for this study are obtained from published government sources. There are three major findings: (1) there was a general trend towards a reduction in inequity in per-student education spending in these countries; (2) this equalization trend was associated with a variety of financing policies implemented in these countries; and (3) a larger share of regional government funding relative to the share of local government funding, intergovernmental transfer, and the design of school funding formulas are crucial factors for enhancing equity in education funding. The policy towards centralization in education finance system also appears to be an important factor in financial equalization.

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Section: Spainmentioning

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Financial Inequity in Basic Education in Selected OECD Countries

Mizunoya¹,

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Tsang

2011

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Territorial Politics in Hard Times: The Welfare State under Pressure in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom

Greer

2010

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Most things are easier to do if you have lots of money, and that includes managing intergovernmental relations. Every country has a long-running debate about how powers and responsibilities should be allocated across levels of governmentsödebates between centralists and localists, between advocates of regional distinctiveness and advocates of shared citizenship rights, between substate and state nationalists. The tensions and conflicts they identify and embody can often be left in the realm of the political if there is enough money to satisfy essential demands of every group. But what happens when the money runs out? This question is pressing as a current policy issue given the economic conditions of 2009, and as a challenge to the very different and incompatible kinds of economic, policy, and legal reasoning that jostle in the field of comparative territorial politics. (1) Policy making`in hard times' is a particularly good test of theories of policy making because it accentuates the difficulties of choices and raises the stakes for politicians (Gourevitch, 1986). My basic argument is that the crisis shows us how territorial political institutions channel fiscal pressure on the welfare state in patterned and understandable ways. Decisions about fiscal structures and forms of decentralization, often taken under very different conditions in the past, shape the vulnerability of different groups and governments to the crisis today. We can expect, further, that the interaction of

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Fiscal Equalization in Spain

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Financial Inequity in Basic Education in Selected OECD Countries

Financial Inequity in Basic Education in Selected OECD Countries

Territorial Politics in Hard Times: The Welfare State under Pressure in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom

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