Politics of Budgets - Getting a Piece of the Pie

"While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and international contexts can facilitate or constrain their behavior. This book explains when governments can and cannot make their preferred budgetary changes, examining how and when these various contexts affect the budgetary decision-making processes"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A Theory of Budgets; 3. Political Competition and the Expenditure Pie; 4. The Effects of Elections, Economics and International Shocks on the Expenditure Pie; 5. Four Sides of the Budgetary Ledger; 6. The Effects of Elections, Economics and External Shocks on the Budgetary Ledger; 7. Conclusion: The Budgetary Mix.

About the author

Christine S. Lipsmeyer is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A & M University. Her research interests merge many areas of political science, including comparative political economy, public policy, governing institutions, and political behavior.Andrew Q. Philips is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are in political economy and comparative politics, as well as methodological interests in machine learning, time series, panel and compositional data.Guy D. Whitten is the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science, as well as the Director of the European Union Center, at Texas A & M University. His research focuses on comparative political economy, comparative public policy, and political methodology.

Summary

While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and international contexts can facilitate or constrain their behavior. This book explains when governments do and do not make their preferred budgetary changes, examining how and when these various contexts affect the budgetary decision-making processes.

Product details

• Authors: Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Christine S. (Texas a & M University) P Lipsmeyer, Andrew Q. Philips, Guy D. Whitten, Whitten Guy D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2023
• EAN: 9781316631287
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63128-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Central / national / federal government policies, Social research and statistics, Constitution: government & the state, Public finance and taxation, Research methods: general, Textbook, coursework