The Technical Competence of Economic Policy-Makers in Developed Democracies

The Technical Competence of Economic Policy-Makers in Developed Democracies

Joint Paper by Joachim Wehner, Mark Hallerberg

 

Speaker: Joachim WEHNER , London School of Economics. Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a member of the Political Science and Political Economy (PSPE) research group and the Public Policy Group

 

Joachim Wehner previously worked at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa). His research interests are in the field of political economy, in particular in relation to budgeting and fiscal policy. Current work includes studies of the “competence” of economic policymakers; the politics and economics of fiscal gimmickry in Europe; and the effect of democratisation on service delivery in South Africa.

He is the author of Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2010.

 

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10 June 2013: Anne Revillard (Sciences Po, OSC et LIEPP)

24 June 2013: Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California, Los Angeles)