The Czech Military Expenditures as a Government Failure, a Social Problem, and Cultural Conflict within 1993-2016

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Czech Military Expenditures as a Government Failure, a Social Problem, and Cultural Conflict within 1993-2016
Original language description
The Czech Republic joined the NATO PfP Program in 1994 and later on, in 1999, it became a NATO member. In order to prevent NATO from free riding as well as to ensure convergence in military capabilities, each NATO country ought to spend on defence 2% GDP at least. However, that has never happened. In 2016, the Czech military expenditures ware only 1% GDP. The goal of this article is to explain such development by cultural theory of budgeting, so the article deals with the evolution of the Czech military expenditures as a government failure, a social problem and a cultural conflict emerging in the last 20 years. An explanation is provided why more than ten Czech governments have not yet coped successfully with the problem of a raise of military spending required by NATO. In fact, this failure was caused by: (i) interference of political cycle with budgetary one, (ii) inferior quality of defence ministers as fiscal agents in comparison with the finance ministers as the fiscal principals, and (iii) plentiful changes of governments. Thus that changed the question of a raise of military expenditures from the crucial political agenda to the routine technical issue sort out by ministerial bureaucracy.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 21th International conference Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Public Finance 2016
ISBN
978-80-245-2155-8
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Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
177-185
Publisher name
Oeconomica
Place of publication
Praha
Event location
Praha
Event date
Apr 15, 2016
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
000392677500028

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