"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.