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- Title
Switzerland: growth of government, growth of centralisation.
- Authors
Price, Victoria Curzon
- Abstract
Switzerland has a tradition of decentralized government, decentralized tax setting and direct reference to the voters through referendums. Such mechanisms should give rise to lower taxes, better provision of public goods and higher economic growth. However, these mechanisms have not been effective in the last 30 years at preventing the growth in government spending and centralization. This is partly because of the consensus in favor of centralization that exists among institutionalized politicians. The performance of the Swiss economy since 1970 has consequently been dismal. Real per capita post-tax incomes have been stagnant. There is now an opportunity for the growth of centralization to be reversed.
- Subjects
DECENTRALIZATION in government; POLITICAL science; TAXATION; PUBLIC administration; ECONOMIC development; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Economic Affairs, 2004, Vol 24, Issue 2, p30
- ISSN
0265-0665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0270.2004.00470.x