Is the post office built to govern?

Someone should really get their law license revoked.

COP30, public finance, state capacity and climate action — Global Public Finance Lab Discusses the critical role of public finance and state institutions in advancing climate action at COP30. Learn how global leaders and experts address fiscal resilience, green budgeting, and policy c...

I wrote a thing about COP30, the state, and green budgeting: www.publicfinancelab.org/news-publica...

Nein, tut sie nicht.

„Live! Exile On Valetta Street“ Phillip Boa And The Voodoo Club

Oder man könnte sich ja, ganz verwegen, statt den üblichen Verdächtigen, nach Leuten umschauen, die sich genau mit Fiskalregeln auskennen. Vielleicht sogar mit einer internationalen Perspektive, die etwas weiter reicht als bis in die Schweiz.

www.spiegel.de/politik/schu...

Meh. I’d do it happily at the current salary. It seems pretty interesting.

Rücknahme der Turbo-Einbürgerung: Loyal zu Deutschland Die schwarz-rote Koalition kehrt in der Migrationsfrage zur Normalität zurück. Wer Deutscher werden will, muss das wollen und zeigen. Und sich entscheiden.

Chaser: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

(S+) Meinung: US-Präsident gegen Harvard: Trump verjagt die klügsten Köpfe der Welt. Warum holt Deutschland sie sich nicht? Mit seinem Ausländerbann an der Eliteuni Harvard schadet Trump sich selbst. Gleichzeitig eröffnet er dem Forschungsstandort Deutschland eine große Chance. Die neue Regierung sollte sie nutzen.

Shot: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

In other words: „Officials recoil at pulling their heads out of the sand; being a 'Transatlantiker‘ never actually involved looking across the Atlantic, why start now“

Out with the calculator, in with the policy paper? Not so fast… As governments face urgent and complex challenges—from climate crises to shifting global trade, defence spending, and generational demands—finance ministries are at the centre of it all. But are they ...

Out with the calculator, in with the policy paper? Not so fast… odi.org/en/insights/...

This looks like an important study.

"We find a strong association between higher population loss and AfD support [in three east German states]... the AfD is the only party that gains electorally from long-term loss of population."

Would be curious to see if/how relationship holds in west Germany.

Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management This edited volume tackles the main issues of fiscal governance and its nexus with climate change, anti-corruption, and financial crisis.

Of course, we weren't foolish enough to try such a thing on our own, so we handed the task over to the stellar cast of experts. All the new and interesting things in PFM I'm thinking about today, I picked up in one of their chapters.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management This edited volume tackles the main issues of fiscal governance and its nexus with climate change, anti-corruption, and financial crisis.

!!!New book alert!!!

Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management: Responding to Global Crises

This is Richard Allen's and my attempt to capture how PFM has evolved, especially how global crises since 2008 changed PFM (or not).

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I will only break my moratorium on reading books about the US for two people, Robert Caro and @rickperlstein.bsky.social.

Their position in the current debt-brake-jailbreak staredown is completely in line with the work that @danyalbayaz.bsky.social, Monika Heinold and others have been doing in German state-level finance ministries for many years.

That the Greens are basically the only major party in Germany standing for sound fiscal management (in the way we understand the term internationally) is clearly a surprise to many, and very difficult to accept for some, but it shouldn't be.

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

Es liest sich eigentlich als eine ganz hervorragende Orientierung, falls man mal was für einen guten Zweck spenden will.

This is a very good thread that should not have been necessary at all. Governments, if you believe your own analysis of the value of (much) aid spending, it makes zero sense to make wholesale cuts. And if there's some secret discount rate to the benefit of aid, I'd love to see it.

Or, how to cut off your nose to spite your face.

Very possible, but oh so tempting for the CDU to then pretent the overhaul is a concession in the coalition talks, and for the SPD to pretend they didn't invent it and take the overhaul as a win, and for both to have a laugh about the FDP-APO. Mighty risky, but one can see the temptation.

#1762

Trump, the state and the revolution To say that Trump in his new incarnation is different from the Trump No.

Here @brankomilan.bsky.social makes an excellent point that will be quite familiar to many Europeans aware of their own history.

open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

Quite. Assuming institutions can't fail because they've never failed is exactly the sort of motivated reasoning that makes institutions fail.

Well, who says UK politics can't be a model for Europe anymore?

Denn nein, offensichtlich sorgt das Mehrheitswahlrecht nicht für "klare Verhältnisse", oder Zweiparteiensysteme, und ganz bestimmt nicht für stabile Mehrheiten.

Demokratiereform: Wäre das Mehrheitswahlrecht etwas für Deutschland? Ohne mühsame Koalitionsverhandlungen: Das Wahlsystem der Briten schafft klare Verhältnisse. Würde es auch zu Deutschland passen? Teil drei unserer Serie zur Demokratiereform.

QTWTAIN: Wäre das Mehrheitswahlrecht etwas für Deutschland?

Tja, man hätte ja vielleicht ausser einem Artikel in Nature auch die reichliche Fachliteratur zu genau diesem Thema konsultieren können...

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Hervorragend

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