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Politics, Institutions and Public Sector Spending in the Argentine Provinces

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  • Mariano Tommasi

    (Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andres)

  • Mark P. Jones

    (Department of Political Science, Michigan State University)

  • Pablo Sanguinetti

    (Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

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  • Mariano Tommasi & Mark P. Jones & Pablo Sanguinetti, 1997. "Politics, Institutions and Public Sector Spending in the Argentine Provinces," Working Papers 17, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia, revised Jan 1999.
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