Economic Policies of Populist Leaders

ISBN-13: 9781032458298 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Opis

Providing an analysis of Central and Eastern European economies, this book explores the economic impacts of populism in the regions of populist rule. This book demonstrates that studying macroeconomic variables such as fiscal balance or current account positions cannot tell the whole story of the economic consequences of populism.

Spis treści

Foreword (Jan Kubik)   1. Introduction: Economic policy under populist rule in Central and Eastern Europe (István Benczes)   Part I.   2. Populism and economic policies: The implications of populism as a thin-centred ideology in the economy (István Benczes)   3. Contemporary populism in Central and Eastern Europe (Natasza Styczyńska and Jan Meijer)   Part II.   4. The (mis)use of unconstrained (political) power in the economy: Hungary under populist rule (István Benczes)   5. Economic populism in Poland: New economic policies and their beneficiaries (Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska)   6. From belt-tightening to scorched earth? (Karel Svoboda)   7. Populism in the making: The case of Slovakia (István Kollai and Bence Bánki)   8. Slovenia: The rise and fall of Janez Janša? (Dženita Šiljak)   9. Opposition in government: The atypical case of Croatian Most/Bridge (Viktória Endrődi-Kovács)   10. Macroeconomic populism in the Baltics: Real effective exchange rate, current account deficit and the economic consequences of populist rule (Gábor Kutasi and Denis Ivanov)   11. National-neoliberal fiscal populism in Romania (Cornel Ban)   12. Where populism has become the mainstream: The case of Bulgaria (Urangoo Bulgamaa)   13. Taking stock: Populist governments and the economy in CEE (István Benczes)

 

O autorze

István Benczes is Professor of International Political Economy at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary