Deficits and debt in industrialized democracies
Featuring the work of an international interdisciplinary team of scholars, this volume explains patterns of fiscal performance (persistent patterns of budget deficits and government debt) from the 1970s to the present across seven countries - France, Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and t...
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New York, NY
Routledge
2015
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| Series: | Routledge research in comparative politics v 63
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction Gene Park and Eisaku Ide
- 2. France: The Difficulty of Fiscal Consolidation Anna Konishi and Frederic Tristram
- 3. Fiscal performance in Germany: The Role of Electoral Competition Achim Kemmerling and Zbigniew Truchlewski
- 4. Fiscal Performance in Italy: A Historical Institutionalist Approach Benedicta Marzinotto
- 5. Explaining Japan's Fiscal Performance - Why Has it Become an Outlier? Masayuki Takahashi and Takaharu Shimada
- 6. Fiscal Performance in South Korea (1970-2012): Budgetary Reforms with Growing Off-budget Indiscipline Myung-koo Kang
- 7. Fiscal Performance in Sweden and its Institutional Conditions Morinao Iju
- Chapter 8: Long-Run Fiscal Consolidations in the United States: The History at the Federal Level W. Elliot Brownlee
- 9. Politics, Fiscal Performance, and External Sources of Budget Discipline in the United States, 1970-2013 Joseph Thorndike
- 10. Weaving the Basket: Elusive Fiscal Convergence in the European Union Edward Fogarty
- 11. Conclusion Eisaku Ide and Gene Park