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Election programmes deal with proposed choices. Everyone wants to take measures that cost nothing or have no down sides. But in practice everything has a price tag. For example, a party cannot raise public spending, cut taxes and reduce the public debt all at the same time. With this analysis, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) wants to set out the choices which the political parties propose in their election programmes. This will reveal the various preferences they have.
This chapter has been previously published in a more comprehensive version (CPB, 2002b). That publication also addresses the history of the assessment of election programmes, its usefulness and limitations, and the possibility of misuse. In chapter 3 of this volume, Henk Don already goes into these questions more deeply. To avoid unnecessary overlap, these passages have therefore been omitted from the present chapter. The text has been reproduced with permission of CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
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CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. (2003). Charting Choices 2003–2006. In: Graafland, J.J., Ros, A.P. (eds) Economic Assessment of Election Programmes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0290-6_2
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