ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00304.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Quantitative targets are widely used in decremental budgeting. On the macro‐level, governments set global limits for the growth of public expenditures, government deficits, or the ratio of government spending to GNP. On the micro‐level, reduction targets are frequently assigned to spending ministries or agencies on a selective basis or across‐the‐board. While this kind of targetry appears to be indispensable to achieve cutbacks, it is also very deficient in that it treats public expenditures as a fungible commodity, consisting of interchangeable units of account. As austerity policies are coming of age, the inherent weaknesses in the targets approach attract increasing attention, and there is growing concern about the quality of austerity measures. To make sound decisions on such measures, governments must develop a better understanding of the characteristics and properties of various public expenditures. This paper outlines four varieties of expenditure analysis that may contribute to ‘the leap from quantity to quality’ in decrementa

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00305.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

During the late 1970s and early 1980s Sweden's budget deficits grew more rapidly than in probably any other country of Western Europe. Government policy responses developed in three phases. In the late 1970s there was very little action taken to cope with run‐away deficits. From 1980 to 1982 a strategy was formulated and partly implemented which heavily emphasized austerity measures through expenditure cuts. From late 1982 a ‘mixed’ strategy has been pursued which combines less drastic cuts with selected revenue increases. The virtual lack of response in the late 1970s and the turn‐about in 1980 may be explained by reference to four major categories of factors: the severity and longevity of the economic crisis itself and the prevailing interpretations of its root causes; the dynamics of public sector growth and the understanding of the processes involved; the ideological and policy predispositions prevalent among policy‐makers, economists, major interest groups and the public at large; and, finally, a set of ‘organizational’ factors mainly associated with the parliamentary situat

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00306.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00307.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00308.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY