The Spending Power in Federal Systems: A Comparative Study

1997 Paper ISBN allocation areas of concurrent areas of exclusive areas of provincial Australia Austria Autonomous Communities Belgium budget Bundesrat Canada Canadian cantons CHST Cloth ISBN Commonwealth Grants Commission concurrent jurisdiction conditional grants conditional transfers confederal constituent units constitution constitutionally Council decentralization decisions direct transfers equalization eral European Union exclusive provincial jurisdiction exercise extensive federal government federal legislation federal spending power federal systems federal transfers federal-state financial arrangements Fiscal Federalism funding German federation Germany Government of Australia government revenues income tax India Institute of Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Relations intergovernmental transfers Länder law-making power legislative competence Link to revenue-raising major Malaysia ment orders of government percent in 1986 political power in areas provincial governments Quebec Liberal Party represented revenue and expenditure revenue-raising powers role shared-cost programs significant social policy Social Union Spain specific spending in areas Swiss Switzerland Table tion Tom Courchene total federal-state-local transfers to individuals unconditional Watts