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Political Ambivalence vs. Economic Rectitude
Author(s) -
Parkinson Cecil
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01922.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , ambivalence , politics , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , carry (investment) , political economy , economics , public expenditure , public spending , public administration , political science , public economics , law , finance , social psychology , psychology , public finance , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Pressures from bureaucracy and voters alide for disbursements from the ‘public’ purse carry much more political force than the desire to reduce government expenditure. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in 1963, Considers the interests in the formulation of spending plans and argues that the politicion willpuf political feasibility before economic desiderato.