Información General

• Autores: Gemma Martínez Bárbara (ed. lit.), Xabier Irujo Amézaga (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada
• Año de publicación: 2018
• Colecciones: Basque Politics Series, 15
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-949805-01-7
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Resumen

• In February 2018 Basque society celebrated the 140th anniversary of the Economic Agreement. This model of governing financial and fiscaI relations with the Spanish state, based on negotiation and agreement, is one of the most and unique instruments of self-government in the Basque Country and certainly one of the most outstanding signs of Basque identity.

  Since February 28, 1878, the Economic Agreement has overcome major challenges such as wars, political and economic crises, and dictatoriaI governments. The twenty-first century brings particular challenges not only at the state level-the emergence of strong centralism and constitutional crises-but also at the international level with globalization and the uniformization of the digital economy and markets. The central thread of this book is the analysis of the Basque Economic Agreement as a financial self-government tool from the perspective, of some of the federal reference models in the world: the United States, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada. The Economic Agreement has contributed to the creation of a unique system in which the preservation of traditions becomes intermingled with investing in innovation, research, and development, creating synergies that have proved to be extremely effective and successful in reaching adequate levels of autonomy for sub-central governments, efficiency, income distribution equity, accountability, and other key factors involved in nation-state, building processes in federal systems: A model that can thus be considered to be a model of reference in relation to a likely devolution of powers to local government in the twenty-first century in order to tackle the current social and economic realities.

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Listado de artículos

• • Chapter 1. US and Basque Tax Systems: A comparative approach to their evolution and legal fundamentals

    Gemma Martínez Bárbara

    págs. 13-40

    

  • Chapter 2. Economic theories of fiscal federalism: The USA and the Basque Country

    Nieves Pereda Chavarri

    págs. 41-66

    

  • Chapter 3. Tax harmonization in the United States compared to the European Union and the Basque Country

    Mikel Amuriza Fernandez

    págs. 67-96

    

  • Chapter 4. A comparison between wealth transfer taxes in the Basque Autonomous Community and the United States

    Aitziber Etxebarria Usategi

    págs. 97-117

    

  • Chapter 5. The Basque and Swiss fiscal systems building processes as a source of lesson for the European integration process

    Mikel Erkoreka González

    págs. 119-135

    

  • Chapter 6. A fiscal model for political cosovereignty? How the Economic Agreement has shaped the territorial ambitions of Basque Nationalists

    Caroline Gray

    págs. 137-156

    

  • Chapter 7. The impact of the Basque Economic Agreement on community economic development

    Sofía Arana Landín

    págs. 157-172

    

  • Chapter 8. Federalism and the cities of the twenty-first century

    Roberto Bernales

    págs. 173-192