Does the size of the legislature affect the size of government? Evidence from two natural experiments
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- Pettersson-Lidbom, Per, 2004. "Does the Size of the Legislature Affect the Size of Government? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments," Discussion Papers 350, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
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Government spending; Legislature size; Legislative policy-making; Distributive politics; Regression–discontinuity design; Panel data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
- P16 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Political Economy of Capitalism
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- K10 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - General (Constitutional Law)
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
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