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Can National Legislatures Regain an Effective Voice in Budget Policy?

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Two contemporary developments are buffeting legislative work on the budget. One is the drive to discipline public finance by constraining the fiscal aggregates; the other is the effort to enlarge the legislature’s role in revenue and spending policy. Whether these trends turn out to be complementary or contradictory will shape the budgetary role of national legislatures in the years ahead. One scenario is for the legislature to reinforce fiscal discipline by taking responsibility for the budget’s totals; another is for it to undermine discipline by bombarding the budget submitted by the government with legislative amendments that trim revenues or boost expenditures...

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  • Allen Schick, 2002. "Can National Legislatures Regain an Effective Voice in Budget Policy?," OECD Journal on Budgeting, OECD Publishing, vol. 1(3), pages 15-42.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:govkaa:5lmqcr2k6tlr
    DOI: 10.1787/budget-v1-art15-en
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    1. Mr. Ian Lienert, 2007. "British Influences on Commonwealth Budget Systems: The Case of the United Republic of Tanzania," IMF Working Papers 2007/078, International Monetary Fund.
    2. Barry Anderson, 2013. "The Development of Independent Fiscal Institutions: Lessons from CBO," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 149(II), pages 219-230, June.
    3. Joachim Wehner, 2006. "Assessing the Power of the Purse: An Index of Legislative Budget Institutions," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 54(4), pages 767-785, December.
    4. Stefano Migliorisi & Clay Wescott, 2011. "A Review of World Bank Support for Accountability Institutions in the Context of Governance and Anticorruption," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 26685, December.
    5. Gerardo Uña & Gisell Cogliandro & Nicolás Bertello, 2005. "Delegación de facultades al Jefe de Gabinete de Ministros: Evolución e impacto en el contexto fiscal actual," Public Economics 0505011, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Krisztina Tóth, 2005. "The Impact of Legislature and Citizens on the Budgeting Process in Switzerland: Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe," FSES Working Papers 387, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Freiburg/Fribourg Switzerland.

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