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1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations |
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Future of party government ; volume 4 |
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Future of party government ; volume 4
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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 elections5. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-211) |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Government spending policy -- Germany (West)
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Finance, Public -- Germany (West)
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Budget -- Germany (West)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Budget
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Expenditures, Public
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Finance, Public
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Government spending policy
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Finanzpolitik
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Wahlverhalten
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Germany (West) -- Appropriations and expenditures
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Germany (West)
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Deutschland Bundesrepublik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110900279 |
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3110900270 |
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