When the party's over : the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective /
The politics of cutting public spending or raising taxes (or both) has dominated politics in many democracies in recent years. A new era of conflict has developed, with old political alignments being tested and new battles emerging over whose expectations are to be disappointed and who should be bla...
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Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part I.
- Introduction
- The politics of fiscal squeeze /
- David Heald and Christopher Hood
- Comparing fiscal squeezes across nine country cases /
- Rozana Himaz and Christopher Hood
- Part II.
- Case studies
- Managing fiscal squeeze after the United States' panic of 1837 /
- Alasdair Roberts
- The UK Geddes axe of the 1920s in perspective /
- Christopher Hood and Rozana Himaz
- Carpe diem! New Zealand's fiscal squeeze, 1990-1993 : economic problems, welfare reform and political consequences /
- Robert Gregory and Chris Eichbaum
- Fiscal squeeze in Dutch municipalities in the 1980s : cutback measures and public management reforms /
- Walter Kickert
- Repeating history : fiscal squeeze in two recessions in Ireland /
- Niamh Hardiman
- Fiscal squeeze in Germany : drifting away from the politics of the switching yard? /
- Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich
- Fiscal squeeze in Sweden, 1990-1997 : the causes, the measures, and their short- and long-run effects /
- Anders Lindbom
- A perfect storm in reverse : the 1994-1997 program review in Canada /
- Donald J. Savoie
- Budget politics in really hard times : fiscal squeeze during and after Argentina's great depression /
- Sebastián Dellepiane-Avellaneda
- Part III.
- Conclusion
- Politics in and after fiscal squeeze /
- David Heald, Rozana Himaz and Christopher Hood.