Political Budgeting Across Europe

Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these differences have prevented scholars from discussing their common topic. In this collection, we have gathered a group of prominent scholars to explore the intermingling of budgets and politics from an assortment of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It highlights not only the breadth of current research but also the range of what remains underexplored. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Christian Breunig is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Konstanz.

Christine S. Lipsmeyer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA, where she also is the Director of the Program in the Cross-National Study of Politics.

Guy D. Whitten is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is also the Director of the European Union Center and the Director of the Program in Scientific Political Methodology.