Study on the transfer of fiscal powers to the colonial territories.

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23830060
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Public finance/Monetary economics
• Research Institution: Tohoku Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Shigeru 東北学院大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90616492)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: イギリス帝国 / 財政権限委譲 / 連邦制 / 北アイルランド

Research Abstract

The enactment of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which gave legislative and fiscal powers to the Government of Northern Ireland transformed the British constitution into federal one in a practical way. However, impact of Word War 2 broke the federal characteristics of that Act. I focus on the discussion of the transfer of fiscal power to consider the collapse process of the 1920 Act.