| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Future of party government ; volume 4
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Future of party government ; volume 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-211). |
| Contents |
""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Elections and parliamentary democracies""; ""A. The position of elections in democratic theories""; ""B. The position of elections in the perception of politicians""; ""III. Determinants of policy outputs I""; ""A. Policy output studies""; ""B. A budgetary perspective: the theory of incrementalism""; ""C. Restrictions to active policy-making: limited flexibility""; ""IV. Determinants of policy outputs II""; ""A. General elements of the rational choice approach""; ""B. Econometric and politico-economic models"" |
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""1. Politico-economic interdependence""""2. The relationship between political and economic variables""; ""3. �Electoral cycles� and macro-economic policy""; ""4. The difficulty of corroborating the existence of �electoral cycles�""; ""4.1 Various countries""; ""4.2 The German case""; ""5. �Popularity cycles� and macro-economic policy""; ""6. Critique of �electoral and popularity cycle� models""; ""V. Analytical design""; ""A. The rational choice approach to the study of resource allocation"" |
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""1. Herder-Dorneich�s view of the relationship between expenditures, taxes, and elections in a democracy""""2. The Downsian model of resource allocation reconsidered""; ""B. The German budgetary process and incrementalist theory""; ""C. Data and method""; ""1. Selection criteria for the different areas""; ""2. The different expenditure levels""; ""3. Operationalization and statistical methods""; ""VI. Budgetary politics and elections: empirical results""; ""A. Subsidies and elections""; ""1. Agricultural subsidies""; ""2. Industrial subsidies""; ""3. Social transfers"" |
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""4. Social policy laws and elections""""5. Subsidies as electoral politics -- the statistical analysis""; ""B. Social policy and elections""; ""1. Expenditure development over time""; ""2. Social policy as electoral politics -- the statistical analysis""; ""C. Research and technology policy and elections""; ""1. Expenditure development over time""; ""2. Research and technology policy as electoral politics -- the statistical analysis""; ""VII. Summary of results and concluding remarks""; ""VIII. Appendix""; ""IX. Bibliography"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Germany (West) -- Appropriations and expenditures.
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Germany (West) |
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Expenditures, Public. |
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Government spending policy -- Germany (West)
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Government spending policy. |
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Finance, Public -- Germany (West)
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Finance, Public. |
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Budget -- Germany (West)
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Budget. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lessmann, Sabine. Budgetary politics and elections 3110109433 (OCoLC)17967397 |
| ISBN |
9783110900279 (electronic book) |
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3110900270 (electronic book) |
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3110109433 |
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9783110109436 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110900279 |
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