ELECTORAL POPULISM VERSUS ECONOMIC STABILITY

Authors

  • Ilie Mihai Spiru Haret

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26458/1714

Keywords:

election, populist measures, political programs, economy, electoral alms, risks, economic slippage, economic stability.

Abstract

It is well known that in election years, political parties compete in measures and promises that are more or less extravagant, designed to attract votes from voters.The situation is understandable to a certain extent, this practice being common in other countries as well, important being not to "jump the horse" as unfortunately happens in Romania, where in four years the politicians, in their desire to obtain a mandate in local or parliamentary elections, replete with all kinds of promises, without regard to the impact that their application might have on the stability of the overall economy.As the electoral legislation has become more stringent, attracting voters by giving them attentions and gifts (buckets, packages of food with sugar, oil, etc., or gourmet) was forbidden and election promises have climbed the first rung of the strategy of attracting voters.On the other hand, the old local and central political structures at the end of their mandate try, for the last hundred meters, to adopt populist, hoping both to renew mandates and to solve personal interests relating to special pensions bonuses and all sorts of pecuniary advantages, according to the principle "after us the deluge".  

Author Biography

Ilie Mihai, Spiru Haret

Prof univ. dr. laureat al premiului Academiei Române pentru economie

References

Ilie Mihai (coord.) și colectivul, Piața financiară – componentă fundamentală a pieței globale, Editura Fundației România de Mâine, București, 2015.

Răzvan Amariei, „Capital” nr. fn/07 octombrie2016.

INS, Populația României pe localități la 1 ianuarie 2016 (după domiciliu), București, 2016, ISSN 2066-2181.

***, OUG nr. 20/2016 privind salarizarea personalului plătit din fonduri publice, M.Of. nr. 434/9 iunie 2016.

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Published

2017-03-30

How to Cite

Mihai, I. (2017). ELECTORAL POPULISM VERSUS ECONOMIC STABILITY. Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series, 17(1), 47–55. https://doi.org/10.26458/1714

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