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Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences and Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt
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Harvard University
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Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences. By Herbert Obinger, Stephan Liebfried, and Francis G. Castles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 378 pages. $75.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.

Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes. By Kathleen O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 286 pages. $70.00.

As the literature on federalism and decentralization experienced a revival in recent years, comparative research has tended to fall into two categories. The first examines the origins of institutions, seeking the causes of decentralization and federalism. The second explores the consequences of decentralization and federalism for such outcomes as fiscal performance, economic growth, and the welfare state. The two books under review respectively make important contributions to each field. In both instances, we see that federalism and decentralization remain lively topics of concern for comparative politics.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 795 - 797
Copyright
2006 American Political Science Association

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