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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AH - Ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the 21th International conference Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Public Finance 2016

ISBN

978-80-245-2155-8

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

177-185

Název nakladatele

Oeconomica

Místo vydání

Praha

Místo konání akce

Praha

Datum konání akce

15. 4. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000392677500028