000 01830nab a2200253 c 4500
999 _c146463
_d146463
003 ES-MaIEF
005 20220927120342.0
007 ta
008 220927t2022 us ||||| |||| 00| 0|eng d
040 _aES-MaIEF
_bspa
_cES-MaIEF
100 1 _969511
_aEmmenegger, Patrick
245 0 _aDirect democracy, coalition size and public spending
_c Patrick Emmenegger, Lucas Leemann and André Walter
500 _aResumen.
504 _aBibliografĂ­a.
520 _aThis article contributes to the literature on direct democracy and public spending in two ways. First, we explore how direct democratic institutions interact with a specific aspect of the representative system, the size of the governing coalition, to influence public spending. Second, based on newly collected data, we examine the relationship between three different direct democratic institutions, coalition size and public spending over the period from 1860 to 2015. Empirically, we find that initiatives increase the size of the public sector under single-party governments, but this positive relationship disappears as coalition size increases. In contrast, we find that financial referendums slow down the growth of public spending, while law referendums are not systematically associated with public spending. Finally, we find that the relationship between direct democratic institutions, coalition size and public spending does not change over time despite the long period under investigation
650 4 _944787
_aGASTO PUBLICO
650 _aDEMOCRACIA
_941808
650 4 _944995
_aGOBIERNO
650 4 _947972
_aPARTIDOS POLITICOS
700 1 _970040
_aLeemann, Lucas
700 _957120
_aWalter, Andrew
773 0 _9168002
_oOP 1793/2022/2
_tJournal of Public Policy
_w(IEF)17584
_x 0143-814X
_g v. 42, Issue 2, June 2022, p. 224-246
942 _cART