The beast is not easily starved

Dwight Lee ()

Public Choice, 2015, vol. 164, issue 3, 275-285

Abstract: Public choice insights, with an emphasis on expressive voting, provide support for the empirical findings that starving the beast is not an effective way of reducing government. The key implication behind that theoretical support is that political ideology trumps narrowly defined self-interest in influencing voting decisions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Starving the beast; Expressive voting; Ideology; Budget deficits; H-30; H-50; H-63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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