The objective of this study has been to undertake an analysis of the economic and institutional determining factors of fiscal pressure in a group of European countries with different levels of economic development, recent history, or level of cooperation and integration among them. We have used...

Do countries with serious inequality problems make a greater effort to rectify this situation? Is equality a key element in social spending budget design? We attempt to answer these, and other, questions throughout this article. The objective of this paper is to analyze the economic and...