Fiscal ecosystems include governments, legislatures, the public administration and other key actors and institutions in our political and economic life.  This ecosystem, rooted in hundreds of years of political history and economic development, is composed of an intertwined set of incentives, public and private information and a complex and sometimes opaque set of rules and processes based on constitution, law and power.  The actors within this system depend on one another as well as the robustness and transparency of information and processes, all underpinned by a society's standards of accountability.  It is at this dynamic intersection of money and politics that the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy @uOttawa aims to research, advise, engage and teach.