Public Attitudes toward Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from a Representative German Population Survey.
The poor state of public finances in many countries has led to calls for fiscal consolidation. In practice, implementing concrete consolidation measures appears to meet with public resistance, suggesting that the success of consolidation efforts strongly depends on the popularity of the chosen measu...
| Publicado en: | Kyklos Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 42 - 70 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2017
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