The fiscal commons problem is one of the most prominent explanations of excessive spending and indebtedness in political economics. The more fragmented a government, the higher its spending, deficits and debt. In this paper we investigate to what extent this problem can be mitigated by different...

This paper studies the impact of national fiscal rules on government size as measured by the ratio of government expenditures to gross domestic product. We develop a model of the budgetary process and show that a common pool problem may arise which can be mitigated through fiscal rules. We test...

Dieser Beitrag skizziert die Grundidee des "politischen Liberalismus": Ausgangspunkt ist das "Faktum des Pluralismus" und darauf aufbauend die Einsicht, dass es strittige Fragen der religiösen Weltanschauung und der privaten Lebensführung gibt, die sich nicht in jedem Fall durch eine...