Title: Who Controls the Budget: The Legislature or the Executive?
Abstract: Country-specific factors prevent a strong linear relationship between the legislature`s budgetary powers and the extent of its separation from the executive. Electoral and voting systems, bicameralism, constitutional and legal constraints, voluntary contracts of political parties, and long-standing traditions all influence the relative budgetary powers of executives and legislatures. Differences in the legislature`s budgetary authority in twenty-eight countries with five different forms of government are examined. It is concluded that differences in budgetary powers within a particular form of government are as great as those between different forms of government.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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