1st Edition

Political Budgeting Across Europe

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these differences have prevented scholars from discussing their common topic. In this collection, we have gathered a group of prominent scholars to explore the intermingling of budgets and politics from an assortment of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It highlights not only the breadth of current research but also the range of what remains underexplored. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

    Introduction: Political Budgeting from a Comparative Perspective  1. Budgetary change in authoritarian and democratic regimes  2. Representative systems and policy punctuations  3. Interpreting fiscal accounting rules in the European Union  4. The politics of fiscal rules within the European Union: a dynamic analysis of fiscal rules stringency   5. Public opinion on policy and budgetary trade-offs in European welfare states: evidence from a new comparative survey   6. A new approach to the study of partisan effects on social policy   7. The effects of immigration and integration on European budgetary trade-offs

    Biography

    Christian Breunig is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Konstanz.





    Christine S. Lipsmeyer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA, where she also is the Director of the Program in the Cross-National Study of Politics.





    Guy D. Whitten is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is also the Director of the European Union Center and the Director of the Program in Scientific Political Methodology.