Distributive Tensions in Developing Federations.

This paper seeks to understand the origins of diverse fiscal structures in federations, focusing on the importance of the distributive pressures emerging from the territorial structure of inequality, the rent-seeking incentives that emerge from different patterns in the regional incidence of inequality, and the way in which different institutional contexts privilege incumbents at different levels of government. We focus in the developing federations of Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, presenting a new dataset on the territorial structure of inequality. Analytically, we bring up a common logic through which the distributive tensions associated with different structures of inequality shape fiscal structures. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]