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Local Fiscal Equalization: a New Proposal and an Experiment

    01.07.2010

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Local public finance
equalization
economic disparities
financial transfers
tax potential
expenditure needs
solidarity
English This paper formalizes the new schemes of fiscal equalization that has been decided in 2009 and will be introduced at the local level in the canton of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2011. It develops the political economy of the proposal with the aim of understanding the participative democratic process that led to the acceptance of a radical change in the canton's equalization policy, the normative concept of solidarity which founds this policy and its model implementation.
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Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales
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  • English
Classification
Economics
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Faculté SES

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  • Working Papers SES ; 418
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  • RERO DOC 27896
  • RERO R007042601
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/302137
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