Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies - Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy MIX

Zusatztext "This book considers the joint choice of monetary and fiscal policy by monetary and fiscal authorities! the central bank and the government! which are separate entities with differing objectives insofar as the former is independent of the latter. It considers the combination of multiple characteristics of these governments and their institutional-structural environmentsâ?"left/right partisanship! fractionalization! labour-market organization and institutions! and election-year incentivesâ?"in explaining these policy choices. No previous work in political science of which I am aware gives as serious and sustained attention to this political economy of the joint fiscal/monetary choices of policymakers in as richly contextualized institutional-structural environments."Robert J. Franzese! Jr.! Associate Professor of Political Science! The University of Michigan Informationen zum Autor Takayuki Sakamoto is assistant professor of political science at Southern Methodist University (USA). Klappentext This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in America, Europe and Asia. Zusammenfassung This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in America, Europe and Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Party Governments-Central Banks Interaction: The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix 3. Change in the Economic Environment, Political Actors and Adjustment 4. The Political-Economic Determinants of Economic Policy and Outcomes: Basic Empirical Results 5. Party Governments, Central Banks and Labor: Empirical Evidence for Interactive Effects 6. Conclusion

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• Authors: Takayuki Sakamoto, Takayuki (Southern Methodist University Sakamoto, Sakamoto Takayu, Sakamoto Takayuki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415774147
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77414-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, macroeconomics, Economic history, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government