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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Economic Methodological Aspects
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Front Matter
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Assesment of Election Programmes: Conclusions for the Future
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Back Matter
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About this book
In the Netherlands, the election programmes of the political parties are assessed for their economic impact by an independent economic bureau. The result of this analysis is published just before the elections take place. In this way, the voter will be protected against political parties that try to win the elections by making popular but unfounded financial promises.
Economic Assessment of Election Programmes contains contributions of several distinguished economists and philosophers who consider the gains of this procedure to society. Does the analysis by the Netherlands' Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) raise the democratic quality of the elections? Can we really be confident in the tools of economics? The last section of this volume states the opinion of representatives of the political parties. This part also clarifies why political parties voluntarily participate in this process and how they perceive the role division between the political party and CPB.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Assessment of Election Programmes
Book Subtitle: Does it make sense?
Editors: Johan J. Graafland, Arie P. Ros
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0290-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7390-8Published: 30 April 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5006-4Published: 23 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0290-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 155
Topics: Political Science, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Microeconomics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology