Comparative Public Budgeting
Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

This analysis of budgetary systems and policies across the world examines how politics, culture, and economics influence public finance.

George M. Guess (Author), James D. Savage (Author)

9781107198296, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 January 2021

325 pages
15.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm, 0.58 kg

Every government engages in budgeting and public financial management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent, participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. This book compares budgetary systems around the world by examining the economic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which they are formulated, adopted, and executed. The second edition has been updated with new data to offer a more expansive set of national case studies, with examples of budgeting in China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria. Chapters also discuss Brexit and the European Union's struggle to require balances budgets during the Euro Debt Crisis. Additionally, the authors provide a deeper analysis of developments in US budgetary policies from the Revolutionary War through the Trump presidency.

1. Comparative Budgeting
2. Budgeting in the United States
3. Budgeting in Commonwealth Countries
4. Budgeting in the European Union
5. Budgeting in Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
6. Budgeting in Latin America
7. Budgeting in Diverse Cultural Settings
8. Comparative Budgeting: Summary and Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Comparative law [LAM], Political economy [KCP], Comparative politics [JPB]