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9780192886583 (hardback) |
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9780192886606 (epub) |
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9780191981623 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
10.1093/oso/9780192886583.001.0001 doi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"How do governments justify their budgets towards the national parliament? Are their socioeconomic policies shaped more by electoral pressures or by institutional constraints? This book presents a framework and methodology for studying these questions. Based on theories of democratic legitimacy, the book argues that if governments temporarily pursue unpopular policies with the justification that they need to be fiscally responsible, in subsequent years they need to become more responsive again to domestic socioeconomic demands in order to maintain the trust of citizens. The recent crises faced by European countries have repeatedly evoked the impression that European economic governance constrains governments' ability to be responsive to domestic demands. Presuming that during the years of the sovereign debt crisis fiscal discipline was the main imperative for national budgetary policy in the eurozone, this book raises the question whether there was a return to responsiveness in subsequent years, or whether instead this return was prevented by European budgetary rules. This question is investigated in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The empirical evidence shows that fiscal responsibility was indeed the dominant criterion for decision-making during the years of the sovereign debt crisis, but declined progressively from 2014 onwards, with responsiveness gradually becoming a more prominent criterion. The findings thus show that European economic governance per se has not cancelled out the mechanisms by which governments maintain a balance between institutional responsibility and democratic responsiveness"-- Provided by publisher |
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fiskaalpoliitika
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riigieelarve
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riigikulud
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valitsused
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Austria (riik)
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Prantsusmaa
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Saksamaa
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Itaalia (riik)
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Hispaania (riik)
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Euroopa Liidu maad
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328 (4)
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336 (4)
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