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"This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs often led to rising debt levels. The change to floating exchange rates put more power in the hand of markets, which corresponded with a growing influence of neo-liberal thinking. These developments placed state finances under considerable pressure, and leading scholars here examine how the wealthiest OECD countries responded to these challenges and the consequences for the distribution of wealth between the rich and the poor. As the case studies here make clear, there was no simple 'race to the bottom' in taxation and welfare spending: different countries opted for different solutions that reflected their political and economic structures."

"This paper investigates public investment policy (mainly from the 1980s onwards) with a political - economic approach. The points of this paper are as follow. First, at the macro level , it is possible that the short-term fluctuation of public investment has been controlled by the government party's political incentive to win an election rather than in order to dampen economic fluctuations...."

"ABSTRAKPerwakilan kepentingan perempuan melalui anggota parlemen perempuan tercapai jika terdapat keterhubungan antara konstituen dengan anggota parlemen. Agar dapat menjalin kerjasama maka dibutuhkan pemahaman mendalam mengenai perilaku mereka. Artikel ini mengungkapkan ragam jalinan relasi dan afiliasi ekonomi politik yang melingkupi anggota parlemen perempuan. Jalinan relasi yang terbangun sejak masa pencalonan hingga menjadi anggota parlemen tersebut pada gilirannya memunculkan berbagai kepentingan dan tekanan yang harus direspins oleh anggota parlemen perempuan. dengan memahami berbagai kepentingan dan tekanan yang dihadapi anggota parlemen perempuan, masyarakat sipil dapat merancang rencana aksi yang memicu respons positif mereka sehingga meminimalkan potensi risiko."

"Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low investment rates and the sluggish adoption of liberalizing reforms. He argues that obstacles have less to do with weak formal institutions and low fiscal capacities of the state than with entrenched, rent-seeking interests, misaligned central-local government relations, and state-society struggles over land. Using a political-sociological approach, Davidson demonstrates that 'getting the politics right' matters as much as getting the prices right or putting the proper institutional safeguards in place for infrastructure development. This innovative account and its conclusions will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asia and policymakers of infrastructure investment and economic growth."