Abstract The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western
world. Significant cuts in government programs were initiated as many governments …

This article attempts to clarify the relationships between the politico-administrative system
and responses to austerity by comparing municipal austerity plans in the Netherlands and …

Austerity is an increasingly important feature of urban society in Western countries, both as a
site interwoven with the crisis tendencies of capitalism and as spaces mitigating austerity …

The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world.
Significant cuts in government programs and in public administration itself were initiated as …

This paper explores the use of performance information in budgetary decision-making
during fiscal crisis. The theoretical part of the paper explains the markedly different …

Economic shocks and structural budget imbalances, when combined with ongoing
uncertainty, can lead to fiscal stress in governments. This fiscal stress, along with the …

Objective: This study attempts to explain the fiscal stimulus policy of Indonesia and Japan in
the economic recovery due to the COVID-19 pandemic from a neo-Marxist perspective …

Scholars of cutback budgeting have pointed out for decades that when confronted with fiscal
stress, policymakers often make budgetary choices that sacrifice the fiscal health and …

This book studies how municipalities (can) deal with fiscal stress. It applies an institutional
perspective, arguing that municipalities can move beyond a fiscal focus and performance …

This paper discusses the developments in public finances and fiscal policy in the Baltic
states since the countries regained independence in 1991. The Baltic states have relatively …