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Government, interest groups and incrementalism
Author(s) -
LESSMANN SABINE
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1989.tb00203.x
Subject(s) - incrementalism , ideology , budget process , government (linguistics) , politics , economics , welfare , public economics , realization (probability) , process (computing) , public administration , political economy , political science , market economy , law , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , operating system
. This paper is concerned with the two underlying dimensions of the people's welfare – economic growth and social protection – and their realization in the diverse processes which determine the character of budgeting and of budgetary outcomes. These conflicting conceptions of welfare and the diverse agents involved in the budgetary process generate a government fiscal policy, which expresses the clash between ideology and political feasibility and between politicians’ intentions and actual outcomes. This paper focuses primarily on the budgetary process in West Germany, but also makes some reference to fiscal policy in the UK and the USA.