Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies

Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix

AvTakayuki Sakamoto

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania. Sakamoto argues that central banks’ influence on economic policy is far more extensive than has been conventionally believed. He demonstrates that central banks systematically affect fiscal policy that is conducted by party governments, and that independent central banks restrain the latter’s fiscal policy. Sakamoto also demonstrates that the economic policy of industrial democracies did really change from the 1960s-1970s to the 1980s-1990s and became conservative as a result of the globalization of the economy and governments’ response to it. But he argues that despite the neo-liberal policy shift, globalization has not diminished the role of domestic politics in economic policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-24
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415572279

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Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Makroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Takayuki Sakamoto is assistant professor of political science at Southern Methodist University (USA).

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"This book considers the joint choice of monetary and fiscal policy by monetary and fiscal authorities, the central bank and the government, which are separate entities with differing objectives insofar as the former is independent of the latter. It considers the combination of multiple characteristics of these governments and their institutional-structural environmentsâ€”left/right partisanship, fractionalization, labour-market organization and institutions, and election-year incentivesâ€”in explaining these policy choices. No previous work in political science of which I am aware gives as serious and sustained attention to this political economy of the joint fiscal/monetary choices of policymakers in as richly contextualized institutional-structural environments."Robert J. Franzese, Jr., Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction 2. Party Governments-Central Banks Interaction: The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix 3. Change in the Economic Environment, Political Actors and Adjustment 4. The Political-Economic Determinants of Economic Policy and Outcomes: Basic Empirical Results 5. Party Governments, Central Banks and Labor: Empirical Evidence for Interactive Effects 6. Conclusion