Surges and cuts are explained here by some of the political factors affecting governments' abilities to balance the budget broadly discussed in the literature. We focus on territorial separatism, minority government, grand coalition, single-party government, and the ruling party's ideology....

Russian Abstract: В работе предпринята попытка путем сравнительного анализа выборки старых демократий, а также описания набора эпизодов (включая и молодые демократии)...