Did globalization restrict partisan politics? An empirical evaluation of social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries

Public Choice

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 105-124

  Potrafke, Niklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Globalization; Panel data; Partisan politics; Social expenditures; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349897828     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9414-2     Document Type: Article

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