Macroeconomic policies of developed democracies /

Macroeconomic policies of developed democracies /

"This book synthesizes and extends modern political-economic theory to show how varying interest and institutional structures and shared exposure to similar economic challenges interact to explain commonalities and divergences in the postwar evolution of macroeconomic policies in developed demo...

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Auteur principal: Franzese, Robert J., 1969-
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Collection:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Sujets:
Economic policy.
Comparative economics.
Democracy.
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Table of contents
Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 Overview
  • 1.2 The Democratic Commitments to Government
  • Involvement in the Macroeconomy
  • 1.3 The Evolution of the Policy Commitments and of
  • A/acroeconomic Performance
  • 1.4 Explaining Policy and Outcome Variation across
  • Democracies over Time
  • 1.5 The Political-Economic Implications
  • 1.6 Conclusion
  • 2 THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL
  • INSURANCE
  • 2.1 Introduction: Motivation, the Explanandum, and a
  • Road Map
  • 2.2 Economic Inequality and Demand for Transfers in
  • Pure Democracy
  • 2.3 Democratic Management of Transfer Systems by
  • Elected Governments
  • 2.4 The Data and Empirical Methods
  • 2.5 Empirical Evaluation of the Positive Political
  • Economy of Transfers
  • 2.6 Discussion, Conclusions, and Implications
  • 3 FINANCING THE COMMITMENTS: PUBLIC DEBT
  • 3.1 Introduction: Motivation, the Explanandum, and a /
  • Road Map
  • 3.2 Democratic Management of Public Debt: Theories,
  • Measures, Stylized Facts
  • -
  • 3.3 Empirical Evaluation of the Positive Political
  • Economy of Public Debt
  • 3.4 Discussion, Conclusions, and Implications
  • 4 MONETARY MANAGEMENT OF THE
  • MACROECONOMY
  • 4.1 Introduction: Motivation, the Explanandum, and a
  • Road Map
  • 4.2 Monetary-Policy-Making and Wage-Price-Bargaining
  • Institutions
  • 4.3 A Proposed Synthesis and Extension:
  • Institutional-Structural Interactions
  • 4.4 Empirical Evaluation of the Positive Political
  • Economy of Monetary Policy Making and
  • Wage-Price Bargaining
  • 4.5 Discussion, Conclusions, and Implications
  • 5 COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL-
  • ECONOMY AND MACROECONOAI C
  • POLICY MAKING
  • 5.1 Concluding Themes
  • 5.2 A Prospective Overview
  • References
  • Index.t Obstac.

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