Federal-Cantonal Equalisation in Switzerland : What Should and Could Be Changed?

By Dafflon, Bernard

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Title:	Federal-Cantonal Equalisation in Switzerland : What Should and Could Be Changed?
Author:	Dafflon, Bernard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government Canada, Political science, Administration
Collections:	Canada Government Collection
Historic Publication Date:	2001 Aug.
Publisher:	University of Fribourg


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Table of Contents
Table of Content: 1. General indicators of differences and disparities -- 1.1. Population, languages, religion -- 1.2. National income in the cantons -- 1.3. Cantonal public finance and importance of transfer payments -- 1.4. Fiscal burden in the cantons -- 2. Equalisation -- 2.1. Financial capacity of the cantons -- 2.2. Federal equalisation programmes -- 2.2.1. Conditional federal grants-in-aid -- 2.2.2. Revenue sharing -- 2.2.3. Cantonal contributions to social security -- 2.3. A critical appraisal of the present system -- 3. Equalisation reform -- 3.1. The reform process -- 3.2. Principles and main themes of the proposed reform -- 3.3. What?s new ? -- References -- official documents and laws -- appendix i -- tables -- 1 some general indicators about the swiss cantons, 1990 and 1998 -- 2 financial dependence of the cantons on federal grants, 1998, in 1000 sfr. -- 3 indices of tax burden in the cantons and communes, 1998 -- 4 financial capacities of the cantons 2000/2001 -- 5 transfer payments in 1998 and equalisation incidence