The impact of citizens' government accounting illiteracy on voting decisions and ways to overcome it / Sotirios Karatzimas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain -- The determinants of the political election : evidence from italian local governments / Serena Santis, University of Campania --...

This Handbook explores and explains new developments in the "second generation" theory of public finance, in which benevolent rulers and governments have been replaced by personally motivated politicians and the associated institutions. In other words, the normative approach has largely given...