Konvergenz der Staatseinnahmen? Entwicklung und Ursachen der Varianz im Internationalen Vergleich

Abstract

Current political science hypothesizes that new internal and external challenges will lead to changes in the political order of the nation state, The criteria for the existence of such a transformation are broad-based and important shirts of the level and variance of state activity. In this article these hypotheses are tested with regard to the financial autonomy of the nation state on a sample of 43 countries between 1973 and 1998. It concludes that there is little evidence for a loss of financial autonomy since the level and distribution of public revenue hardly changed. An important change, however, is that since the mid-1980s the persistent cross-sectional variance of public revenue cannot be explained anymore by the famous compensation hypothesis.