Budgetary Politics and Elections : An Investigation of Public Expenditures in West Germany.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- II. Elections and parliamentary democracies -- A. The position of elections in democratic theories -- B. The position of elections in the perception of politicians -- III. Determinants of policy outputs I -- A. Policy output studies -- B. A budgetary perspective: the theory of incrementalism -- C. Restrictions to active policy-making: limited flexibility -- IV. Determinants of policy outputs II -- A. General elements of the rational choice approach -- B. Econometric and politico-economic models -- 1. Politico-economic interdependence -- 2. The relationship between political and economic variables -- 3. 'Electoral cycles' and macro-economic policy -- 4. The difficulty of corroborating the existence of 'electoral cycles' -- 4.1 Various countries -- 4.2 The German case -- 5. 'Popularity cycles' and macro-economic policy -- 6. Critique of 'electoral and popularity cycle' models -- V. Analytical design -- A. The rational choice approach to the study of resource allocation -- 1. Herder-Dorneich's view of the relationship between expenditures, taxes, and elections in a democracy -- 2. The Downsian model of resource allocation reconsidered -- B. The German budgetary process and incrementalist theory -- C. Data and method -- 1. Selection criteria for the different areas -- 2. The different expenditure levels -- 3. Operationalization and statistical methods -- VI. Budgetary politics and elections: empirical results -- A. Subsidies and elections -- 1. Agricultural subsidies -- 2. Industrial subsidies -- 3. Social transfers -- 4. Social policy laws and elections -- 5. Subsidies as electoral politics - the statistical analysis -- B. Social policy and elections -- 1. Expenditure development over time -- 2. Social policy as electoral politics - the statistical analysis.

C. Research and technology policy and elections -- 1. Expenditure development over time -- 2. Research and technology policy as electoral politics - the statistical analysis -- VII. Summary of results and concluding remarks -- VIII. Appendix -- IX. Bibliography.

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