Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball?: OECD Countries under Examination

Niklas Potrafke

No 676, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

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.

Keywords: social expenditures; electoral cycles; partisan politics; globalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 + Anh. p.
Date: 2007
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