Philipp Krause
phkrause.bsky.social
Philipp Krause
@phkrause.bsky.social
Public Finance & Public Admin in the day. Brooding over Germany in the night.
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.
link.springer.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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.
March 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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.
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Quite. Assuming institutions can't fail because they've never failed is exactly the sort of motivated reasoning that makes institutions fail.
February 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Well, who says UK politics can't be a model for Europe anymore?
February 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Denn nein, offensichtlich sorgt das Mehrheitswahlrecht nicht für "klare Verhältnisse", oder Zweiparteiensysteme, und ganz bestimmt nicht für stabile Mehrheiten.
February 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM