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between the United States's response to the Great Depression, and Germany's
response to Reunification (
Chapters 5
and
6
), allow us to draw some inferences
about the causal impact of a heterogeneous economic geography under differ-
ent institutional conditions; (2) in addition, the contrast between the political
conflicts over fiscal structures in the EU and Spain (
Chapters 4
and
7
)pro-
duces insights about the extent to which the organization of representation
at the starting point shapes these processes; (3) finally, the quantitative analy-
ses in
Chapter 8
take on the empirical implications of this hypothesis directly
and ponder whether the conclusions derived from the case studies bear some
generalizability.
Hypothesis 3: Given a decentralized system of interpersonal redistribution, the
level of interregional redistribution is positively related to levels of mobility and
negatively related to centripetal representation.
The decentralization of interpersonal redistribution enhances conflicts over
interregional transfers. Hypothesis 3 concerns the determinants of such trans-
fers. The contrast between the European Union (
Chapter 4
) and Germany (5)
brings to light interesting implications for the relationship between the scope of
interregional mobility and the level of interregional redistribution. Similarly, a
comparative overview of all five unions illuminates the question of what system
of representation is more capable of weighing down the extractive capacity of
territorially localized political strongholds. Finally,
Chapter 8
includes a mul-
tivariate analysis of the determinants of interregional redistribution in political
unions.
