How the Dutch government responded to financial, economic and fiscal crisis

Abstract

This article describes how the Dutch government responded to that country's financial, economic and fiscal crises. The article covers the financial crisis in 2008 when the Dutch government took measures to support and save banks; the economic crisis in 2009, which forced the government to take economic recovery measures; and the resulting fiscal crisis of increasing state debts and budget deficits which led the incoming government in 2010 to begin cutbacks in public expenditure.

Keywords:

• Dutch politics
• economic crisis
• financial and banking crisis
• fiscal crisis
• government decision-making
• politics and administration

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Walter Kickert

Walter Kickert is Professor of Public Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently involved in an international comparative research project on state responses to the fiscal crisis, together with Randma-Liiv of Tallinn University.