Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James M. Poterba and Jürgen von Hagen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450816403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1999
• ISBN: 1-281-43105-2; 9786611431051; 0-226-67630-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
• Altri autori (Persone): PoterbaJames M; HagenJürgen von
• Disciplina: 336.3
• Soggetti: Budget deficits; Fiscal policy; Deficit financing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions -- 2. A Model of Endogenous Fiscal Deficits and Delayed Fiscal Reforms -- 3. Consumption Smoothing through Fiscal Policy in OECD and EU Countries -- 4. Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Policy Outcomes: Evidence from OECD Countries -- 5. Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal Performance: The Latin American Experience -- 6. Politics, Institutions, and Public-Sector Spending in the Argentine Provinces -- 7. Public Debt and Budgetary Procedures: Top Down or Bottom Up? Some Evidence from Swiss Municipalities -- 8. State Fiscal Institutions and the U.S. Municipal Bond Market -- 9. Electoral Institutions, Cabinet Negotiations, and Budget Deficits in the European Union -- 10. Budgetary Institutions and the Levels of Expenditure Outcomes in Australia and New Zealand -- 11. Budgetary Procedures-Aspects and Changes: New Evidence for Some European Countries -- 12. Subnational Budgetary and Stabilization Policies in Canada and ; Australia -- 13. Coping with Fiscal Stress: Illusion and Reality in Central Government Budgeting in Japan, 1975-1 -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The unprecedented rise and persistence of large-scale budget deficits in many developed and developing nations during the past three decades has caused great concern. The widespread presence of such deficits has proved difficult to explain. Their emergence in otherwise diverse nations defies particularistic explanations aimed at internal economic developments within a specific country. Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance shifts emphasis away from narrow economic factors to more broadly defined political and institutional factors that affect government policy and national debt. This collection brings together new theoretical models, empirical evidence, and a series of in-depth case studies to analyze the effect of political institutions, fiscal regulations, and policy decisions on accumulating deficits. It provides a fascinating overview of the political and economic issues involved and highlights the role of budgetary institutions in the formation of budget deficits.

Memory Boxes : An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 / Heta Aali, Anna-Leena Perämäki, Cathleen Sarti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139131103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014
• ISBN: 9783839427866; 383942786X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
• Collana: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
• Classificazione: NK 4760
• Disciplina: 303.48/24
• Soggetti: Cultural Transfer; History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Exchange; Memory Culture; Cultural History; European History; Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Content 5 Preface 9 Memory Boxes an Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 11 Topoi as a Memory Box 21 How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois' St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre 27 The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury 55 The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth- Century Germany 79 Providence The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box 93 Personalities as a Memory Box 109 The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France 113 Henry the Lion - Enrico Leone A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick 131 Artefacts as a Memory Box 151 Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity 155 Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood Finland (1911) as a Memory Box 177 Diaries, Material Memory Holders Creating a Memory Box 195 "We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone" The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century 219 An Epilogue Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box 239 List of Contributors 241
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies.The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory – but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises »memory box« as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in conjunction with cultural memory.; »The idea of the memory box is an inspiring one, and as such, it can certainly open new vistas for cultural historians.«