Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball? OECD Countries under Examination

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Title:	Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball? OECD Countries under Examination
Keywords:	H50 D72 ddc:330 social expenditures electoral cycles partisan politics globalisation Öffentliche Sozialausgaben Public Choice Politischer Konjunkturzyklus Globalisierung OECD-Staaten
Issue Date:	16-Oct-2013
Publisher:	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
Description:	This paper examines how policy affects social expenditures. Analyzing an OECD panel from 1980 to 2003, five political variables are tested: Election- and pre-election years, the ideological party composition of the governments, the number of coalition partners and the fact, if the ruling government has a majority in parliament or not (minority government). I find that neither of these variables have an impact on social expenditures using different model set-ups. The influence of national governments seems to be limited by the globalization, which indeed impairs social expenditures.
URI:	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18408
Other Identifiers:	http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18408 ppn:527050970
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