Public Expenditures on Education and Cultural Affairs in the West German States: Does Government Ideology Influence the Budget Composition?

German Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-145

  Potrafke, Niklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocation of policy responsibilities; Budget composition; D72; Fiscal federalism; Government ideology; H50; H61; H72; H77; Partisan politics; Public expenditures

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FORMATION; CULTURE; EDUCATION POLICY; EXPENDITURE; FEDERAL SYSTEM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC SPENDING; STATE ROLE;

GERMANY;

EID: 79951818029     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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