Institutions, Politics and Fiscal Policy (Hardcover, 2000)

Introduction. Acknowledgements. Part I: Partisan Politics and Debt. 1. On the Redistributive Property of Budget Deficits; L. Lambertini. 2. Parliamentary Dynamics and Fiscal Policy; A. Baldini. 3. Electoral and Partisan Manipulation of Public Debt in Developed Democracies, 1956-90; R.J. Franzese, Jr. Part II: Parliamentary Institutions, Formal Budget Restraints and Fiscal Discipline. 4. The Role of Parliamentary Committees in the Budgetary Process Within Europe; M. Hallberger. 5. Fiscal Constitutions, Fiscal Preferences, Information and Deficits: An Evaluation of 13 West-European Countries 1978 - 95; L. Helland. 6. Information and Public Spending: An Empirical Study of Budget Processes in the US States; R. Strauch. 7. Fiscal Institutions in US States; B. Knight, A. Levinson. Part III: Three Cases of Institutional Reform. 8. Reforming Budgetary Institutions: Swedish Experiences; P. Molander. 9. Institutional Reforms and Belgian Fiscal Policy in the 90s; G. Stienlet. 10. A Case of Institutional Endogeneity? A Study of the Budgetary Reforms of the Government of Alberta, Canada; R.D. Kneebone, K.J. McKenzie. Index.