Party discipline and government spending: Theory and evidence
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- Curto-Grau, Marta & Zudenkova, Galina, 2016. "Party Discipline and Government Spending: Theory and Evidence," Working Papers 0624, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
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Party discipline; Discretionary spending; Party line;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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