出版社：European Political Economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC)
摘要：This paper endeavours to illuminate the political and institutional
factors that can help explain differing degrees of fiscal retrenchment
in European Union countries for the time period 1990-2001.
Several variants of the partisan approach and the veto players
framework are elucidated and applied to the question of budgetary
consolidation. These elaborations yield five working hypotheses
which are empirically tested using a time-series cross-section data
set of 14 EU countries. The results lend support to the notion that
partisan preferences and institutional veto players interact to shape
budgetary retrenchment in a rather counterintuitive way.
