Political Budgeting Across Europe / edited by Christian Breunig, Christine S. Lipsmeyer and Guy D. Whitten.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142) and index.

Introduction: Political Budgeting from a Comparative Perspective / Christian Breunig, Christine S. Lipsmeyer and Guy D. Whitten -- 1. Budgetary change in authoritarian and democratic regimes / Frank R. Baumgartner, Marcello Carammia, Derek A. Epp, Ben Noble, Beatriz Rey and Tevfik Murat Yildirim -- 2. Representative systems and policy punctuations / E.J. Fagan, Bryan D. Jones and Christopher Wlezien -- 3. Interpreting fiscal accounting rules in the European Union / Christopher Gandrud and Mark Hallerberg -- 4. The politics of fiscal rules within the European Union: a dynamic analysis of fiscal rules stringency / Pascal Doray-Demers and Martial Foucault -- 5. Public opinion on policy and budgetary trade-offs in European welfare states: evidence from a new comparative survey / Marius R. Busemeyer and Julian L. Garritzmann -- 6. A new approach to the study of partisan effects on social policy / Matt W. Loftis and Peter B. Mortensen -- 7. The effects of immigration and integration on European budgetary trade-offs / Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Andrew Q. Philips and Guy D. Whitten.

"Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these differences have prevented scholars from discussing their common topic. In this collection, we have gathered a group of prominent scholars to explore the intermingling of budgets and politics from an assortment of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It highlights not only the breadth of current research but also the range of what remains underexplored. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy."--Provided by publisher.