Abstract
In every system of government, some of the most difficult problems are those that concern money: the levying of revenues and the control of expenditure. Within national states the power of the purse has been recognised for long as one of the most basic political issues, disputed between king and parliament in Britain, between President and Congress in the USA, between different chambers of parliament elsewhere. Disputes over what taxes are to be raised, and how they are to be spent, remain today as fundamental as any in politics.
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See J. G. Stoessinger, and associates, Financing the United Nations System (Washington, 1964) pp.35–7.
F. P. Walters, A History of the League of Nations (London, 1952) p. 131.
See F.P. Walters, A History of the League of Nations (London, 1952) p. 133: ‘The budget of the League was subjected to a series of controls for which it would be hard to find a parallel.’
J. G. Stoessinger, and associates, Financing the UN System (Washington, 1964) p.96.
For an examination of coordination in the UN family, see Evan Luard, International Agencies: the Emerging Framework of International Interdependence (London, 1977), ch. 17. See also p.175 above.
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Luard, E., Heater, D. (1994). The Budgetary System: Finding the Money. In: The United Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23227-7_7
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