Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017

Nicola Mastrorocco, Giacomo Benedetto () and Simon Hix ()
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Giacomo Benedetto: Royal Holloway, University of London
Simon Hix: London School of Economics

Economic Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department

Abstract: Over the past 100 years in 31 countries. With a unique and newly collected dataset of national election results, and a large number of economic and social variables measured for each country-election observation, we find that two main factors drive the electoral performance of social democratic parties: public sector spending, and the size of the manufacturing sector.

Keywords: Electoral policy; public spending; globalisation; populism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H72 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2018-01, Revised 2019-12
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Journal Article: The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918–2017 (2020)
Working Paper: The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017 (2020)
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