Comparative Public Budgeting - Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

List of contents

1. Comparative Budgeting; 2. Budgeting in the United States; 3. Budgeting in Commonwealth Countries; 4. Budgeting in the European Union; 5. Budgeting in Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union; 6. Budgeting in Latin America;7. Budgeting in Diverse Cultural Settings; 8. Comparative Budgeting: Summary and Conclusion.

About the author

George M. Guess is Adjunct Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and is a former Scholar in Residence in Public Administration and Policy at American University. Guess is the author or co-author of ten books, including Building Democracy and International Governance; International Public Policy Analysis and Cases in Public Policy Analysis.James D. Savage is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Savage is the author of Reconstructing Iraq's Budgetary Institutions: Coalition State Building after Saddam (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht, and Balanced Budgets and American Politics.

Summary

This book compares budgetary systems around the world by examining how politics, culture, and economics influence public finance. The second edition has been updated with new data and case studies and is for undergraduates and graduate students interested in political science, comparative politics, public policy, economics, sociology, and history.

Product details

• Authors: George M Guess, George M. Guess, George M. (George Mason University Guess, Guess George M., James D Savage, James D. Savage, Savage James D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781107198296
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19829-6
• No. of pages: 325
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Comparative, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, comparative law