| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w15368
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 15368
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| Do Leaders Affect Government Spending Priorities? |
| Adi Brender; Allan Drazen
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| 发表日期 | 2009-09-17
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Since a key function of competitive elections is to allow voters to express their policy preferences, one might take it for granted that when leadership changes, policy change follows. Using a dataset we created on the composition of central government expenditures in a panel of 71 democracies over 1972-2003, we test whether changes in leadership induce significant changes in spending composition, as well as looking at the effect of other political and economic variables. We find that the replacement of a leader tends to have no significant effect on expenditure composition in the short-run. This remains true after controlling for a host of political and economic variables. However, over the medium-term leadership changes are associated with larger changes in expenditure composition, mostly in developed countries. We also find that in established democracies, election years are associated with larger changes in expenditure composition while new democracies, which were found by Brender and Drazen (2005) to raise their overall level of expenditures in election years, tend not to have such changes. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15368
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573043
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Adi Brender,Allan Drazen. Do Leaders Affect Government Spending Priorities?. 2009.
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