Can budget institutions counteract political indiscipline?

Economic Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 48, 2006, Pages 689-739

  Fabrizio, Stefania ^a   Mody, Ashoka ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; EUROPEAN UNION; FISCAL POLICY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; STATE ROLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33749340360     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2006.00169.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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