The Politics of Budgetary Surplus

• Main Author: Brenton, Scott (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Comparative politics.; Economic policy.; Public administration.; Economics.; Public Administration.; Economic Policy.; Comparative Politics.

This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with various rules, albeit with ele...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The path towards surplus
• Chapter 2. Political strategies
• Chapter 3. Types of fiscal rules
• Chapter 4. Types of expenditure cuts
• Chapter 5. The effects on public management
• Chapter 6. The Global Financial Crisis and beyond. .