Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56254 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 628
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We study the effect of political polarization on public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of government in undemocratic countries. The results are robust to a large set of control variables, including GDP per capita and income inequality.
Subjects: 
Political polarization
social cohesion
size of government
redistribution
JEL: 
H10
H20
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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