Schnabel, Johanna (2019) Fiscal Consolidation in Federal Belgium: Collective Action Problem and Solutions. Politics of the Low Countries, (2). ISSN 2589-9929. (KAR id:75270)
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Abstract
Fiscal consolidation confronts federal states with a collective action problem, especially in federations with a tightly coupled fiscal regime such as Belgium. However, the Belgian federation has successfully solved this collective action problem even though it lacks the political institutions that the literature on dynamic federalism has identified as the main mechanisms through which federal states achieve cooperation across levels of government. This article argues that the regionalization of the party system, on the one hand, and the rationalization of the deficit problem by the High Council of Finance, on the other, are crucial to understand how Belgium was able to solve the collective action problem despite its tightly coupled fiscal regime and particularly high levels of deficits and debts. The article thus emphasizes the importance of compromise and consensus in reducing deficits and debts in federal states.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations |
Funders: | Swiss National Science Foundation (https://ror.org/00yjd3n13) |
Depositing User: | J. Schnabel |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2019 16:23 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2022 00:40 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/75270 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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