Budgetary change in authoritarian and democratic regimes

作者：Baumgartner Frank R; Carammia Marcello; Epp Derek A; Noble Ben; Rey Beatriz; Yildirim Tevfik Murat

来源：Journal of European Public Policy, 2017, 24(6): 792-808.

DOI：10.1080/13501763.2017.1296482

• Authoritarianism
• budgeting
• democracy
• public policy
• punctuated equilibrium

We compare patterns of change in budgetary commitments by countries during periods of democracy and authoritarianism. Previous scholarship has focused almost exclusively on democratic governments, finding evidence of punctuated equilibria. Authoritarian regimes may behave differently, both because they may operate with fewer institutional barriers to choice and because they have fewer incentives to gather and respond to policy-relevant information coming from civil society. By analysing public budgeting in Brazil, Turkey, Malta and Russia before and after their transitions from or to democracy, we can test punctuated equilibrium theory under a variety of governing conditions. Our goal is to advance the understanding of the causes of budgetary instability by leveraging contextual circumstances to push the theory beyond democracies and assess its broader applicability.

• 出版日期2017