Measuring US Presidents Political Commitment for Fiscal Discipline between 1920 and 2008

Francesc Pujol

No 01/09, Faculty Working Papers from School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra

Abstract: We propose a theoretical method to catch politicians' fiscal attitude concerning deficits and debt based on the analysis of the political discourse. We describe the methodological steps used to obtain it. The methodology is applied to the case of US President during the period 1920 to 2008. The results can be exploited in order to better understand the formation and the evolution of fiscal preferences and their influence on fiscal performance. As the index is based on normative and positive attitudes about deficits, their analysis can show the presence of strategic political behavior, giving thus a way to test some theoretical models on budgetary political behavior.

Keywords: fiscal discipline; fiscal conservatism; political attitude; discourse analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H30 H6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2009-01-18
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