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| Title: | | Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball? OECD Countries under Examination  |
| Authors: | | Potrafke, Niklas |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 676 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | social expenditures electoral cycles partisan politics globalisation |
| JEL: | | H50 D72 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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