Budget Referendums and Government Spending: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

By Lars P. Feld, John G. Matsusaka. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Are Fiscal Adjustments Less Successful in Decentralized Governments? (2009, neutral): “spending projects above a specific spending threshold ( Feld and Matsusaka 2003 ).”
Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax Externalities: An Empirical Test (2006, background): “Finally, Feld and Matsusaka (2003) nd that constraints on the scal autonomy of cantonal executives matter, since cantons with stronger direct-democratic controls over scal matters have signi cantly lower levels of public spending.”
The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest (2002, neutral): “Figure 5.8 Leaf size as a function of tree height for Cecropia obtusifolia individuals at Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. After Alvarez-Buylla & Martı́nez-Ramos (1992). than the seed (Kitajima 1996).”
Mechanisms of hierarchical reinforcement learning in corticostriatal circuits 1: computational analysis. (2012, background): “…recent anatomical evidence shows a substantial degree of convergence between corticostriatal circuits (Haber 2004; Calzavara et al. 2007; Draganski et al. 2008), and in particular, evidence for a rostrocaudal organization from premotor/PFC to corresponding regions of striatum (Inase et…”
Do fiscal rules cause budgetary outcomes? (2008, background): “Feld and Matsusaka (2003), in a regression of spending on the presence of mandatory budget referenda in Swiss cantons, make use of the share of seats held by left-wing parties in cantonal parliaments to capture voter preferences and find that the associated coefficient is not statistically…”
The economic effects of direct democracy—a first global assessment (2009, neutral): “The possible effects of the three direct democratic institutions here under consideration can be shown by drawing on a simple spatial model found in both Feld and Kirchgässner (2001) as well as in Feld and Matsusaka (2003).”
Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000 (2011, background): “The earlier literature reports a large negative correlation between direct democracy and spending at the same level of government and a large positive correlation with spending at lower levels of government.2 The article closest to ours is by Feld and Matsusaka (2003) which also study Swiss cantons.”
The sympathetic nerve--an integrative interface between two supersystems: the brain and the immune system. (2000, neutral): “Hence, it was suggested that early progenitors in mice may be very sensitive to small amounts of CAs and that b-AR stimulation might serve to trigger hemopoietic stem cells into their cell cycle or to shorten their cell cycle (Byron, 1971).”
DIRECT DEMOCRACY: New Approaches to Old Questions (2004, background): “Feld & Matsusaka (2004) and Schaltegger & Feld (2001) find differences in tax and spending policies among Swiss cantons and municipalities.”
Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes: What are the Stylized Facts? (2001, neutral): “…how constitutional features of state and local governments correlate with policy outcomes (see for instance Bohn and Inman, 1996, Pommerhene, 1990, Feld and Matsusaka, 2000), only a few empirical studies have compared …scal policy in large samples of countries governed by di¤erent electoral rules…”