Public Finance and Parliamentary Constitutionalism

This is the first book to analyse constitutionalism and public finance in parliamentary systems of government. It provides an historical and contemporary account of the interaction of law and the financial behaviour of Anglophone parliamentary systems of government: focusing on taxation, public expenditure, sovereign borrowing and monetary finance.

List of contents

1. Finance and constitutionalism; Part I. Historical Development of Parliamentary Public Finance: 2. History (I): parliament and executive; 3. History (II): judiciary; 4. History (III): exporting parliamentary public finance; 5. History (IV): public finance in the modern state; Part II. Parliamentary Public Finance in Operation: 6. Fiscal authority; 7. Debt and monetary authority; 8. Judicial power; Part III. Evaluating Parliamentary Public Finance: 9. Descriptive failure of parliamentary control; 10. Theory and practice of financial self-rule.

About the author

Will Bateman is Senior Lecturer in Law and the Deputy-Director of Research at the Law School of the Australian National University, Canberra. He has worked at the apex of constitutional and financial law, including at the High Court of Australia and Herbert Smith Freehills.

Summary

This is the first book to analyse constitutionalism and public finance in parliamentary systems of government. It provides an historical and contemporary account of the interaction of law and the financial behaviour of Anglophone parliamentary systems of government: focusing on taxation, public expenditure, sovereign borrowing and monetary finance.

Product details

• Authors: Will Bateman, Will (Australian National University Bateman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108746861
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74686-1
• No. of pages: 281
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Canada, Law, Finance, LAW / Constitutional, Republic of South Africa, Public International Law, Legal History, New Zealand, Monetary Economics, Common Law, Public finance, Public finance and taxation, Systems of law: common law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Finance and the finance industry, New Zealand / Aotearoa