Political Decision Makers And Their Relevance For Public Finances
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Author | : Sebastian Thomasius |
Publisher | : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : 9783848708147 |
In public debate, political successes and failures are usually attributed to individual politicians and their competence. This book provides a first comprehensive analysis of how political decision makers and their individual backgrounds affect fiscal policy. The empirical examination employs three new and unique data sets. The data sets combine information on fiscal policy of German municipalities, German states, and EU countries with the biographies of the respective political decision makers. The author investigates how the politicians individual qualification (e.g., educational and professional background) and their preferences (e.g., party affiliation) affect fiscal performance.
Author | : Mr. M. Cangiano |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2013-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1475512198 |
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they add up to a fundamental change in the way governments manage public money. This book takes stock of the most important innovations that have emerged over the past two decades, including fiscal responsibility legislation, fiscal rules, medium-term budget frameworks, fiscal councils, fiscal risk management techniques, performance budgeting, and accrual reporting and accounting. Not merely a handbook or manual describing practices in the field, the volume instead poses critical questions about innovations; the issues and challenges that have appeared along the way, including those associated with the global economic crisis; and how the ground can be prepared for the next generation of public financial management reforms. Watch Video of Book Launch
Author | : Stanley L. Winer |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781843767527 |
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a meaningful dialogue between these two groups, in the belief that the future of both political economy and of normative public finance lies somewhere between the two approaches. Some of the specific questions addressed in the book include: does public finance need political economy? Should collective choice play a role in the standard of reference used in normative public finance? What is a 'failure' in a non-market or policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice? The book also provides a practitioner's view of the political economy of redistribution.
Author | : Edward S. Quade |
Publisher | : North Holland |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This volume focuses on analytic methods as alternatives to traditional public policy decision-making methods. Covers a broad spectrum of analytic aids to decision making; focuses on the needs of the users rather than the interests of analysts; demonstrates that analysis is not limited to questions that can be quantified; and provides information -- both practical and theoretical -- on questions that are important to those who need analytical help and to those responsible for sponsoring, evaluating, and implementing the analyses of others. For decision-makers in the public sector. © 1989
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464807744 |
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author | : Ingrid van Biezen |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9287153566 |
On cover & title page: Integrated project "Making democratic institutions work"
Author | : Gary M. Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Budget deficits |
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Author | : Fred Carden |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2009-04-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 8178299305 |
Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.
Author | : Frank Zimmermann |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3319520512 |
This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens. Therefore, their activities must – as a matter of principle – be subject to full judicial control. But at the same time, democratically legitimated politicians need some discretion in their decision-making. Allegations of politicians committing criminal offences in office quickly attract a great deal of media attention. Even politicians themselves frequently use such allegations to discredit their political opponents. However, to date this topic has not been fully addressed on an academic level. This book is a first step in this direction. The individual contributions cover topics such as: “bad” political decisions that result in a waste of taxpayers’ money corruption and conflicts of interest in political decision-making immunities and procedural obstacles to the effective prosecution of politicians abuse of criminal law and criminal proceedings in the political arena criminal liability for decisions taken in situations of state emergency the role of criminal law in public opinion. Leading experts examine these and other issues from a comparative perspective.
Author | : Jens Kromann Kristensen |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2019-11-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 146481466X |
This project, based on the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) data set, researched how PEFA can be used to shape policy development in public financial management (PFM) and other major relevant policy areas such as anticorruption, revenue mobilization, political economy analysis, and fragile states. The report explores what shapes the PFM system in low- and middle-income countries by examining the relationship between political institutions and the quality of the PFM system. Although the report finds some evidence that multiple political parties in control of the legislature is associated with better PFM performance, the report finds the need to further refine and test the theories on the relationship between political institutions and PFM. The report addresses the question of the outcomes of PFM systems, distinguishing between fragile and nonfragile states. It finds that better PFM performance is associated with more reliable budgets in terms of expenditure composition in fragile states, but not aggregate budget credibility. Moreover, in contrast to existing studies, it finds no evidence that PFM quality matters for deficit and debt ratios, irrespective of whether a country is fragile or not. The report also explores the relationship between perceptions of corruption and PFM performance. It finds strong evidence of a relationship between better PFM performance and improvements in perceptions of corruption. It also finds that PFM reforms associated with better controls have a stronger relationship with improvements in perceptions of corruption compared to PFM reforms associated with more transparency. The last chapter looks at the relationship between PEFA indicators for revenue administration and domestic resource mobilization. It focuses on the credible use of penalties for noncompliance as a proxy for the type of political commitment required to improve tax performance. The analysis shows that countries that credibly enforce penalties for noncompliance collect more taxes on average.