public debt opus:5968 This doctoral thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, the relationship between political leaders’ socioeconomic characteristics and states´ fiscal and economic performances is empirically analyzed. In the second part, the public’s attitudes toward several topics in fiscal policy are evaluated utilizing data from a representative survey of the German population. Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government Kollektiventscheidung Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Studien zur Fiskalpolitik: Die Interessen politischer Entscheidungsträger und der Wähler 2015-02-19 fiscal policy Neumeier, Florian Neumeier Florian 2015 debt brake Fiscal Policy monograph English doctoralThesis ppn:356630900 https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2015/0151/cover.png leadership 2015-03-09 Economics Wirtschaft Political Leaders´ Characteristics, Voters´ Preferences, and Fiscal Policy Wirtschaftswissenschaften Philipps-Universität Marburg Die vorliegende Arbeit lässt sich in zwei Teile gliedern. Im ersten Teil wird die Beziehung zwischen der sozioökonomischen Herkunft politischer Entscheidungsträger und der fiskal- und wirtschaftspolitischen Performanz der Regierungen, die sie leiten, empirisch untersucht. 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