Deficits and Debt in Industrialized Democracies (Paperback)

Selected Contents: Preface 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