Political Competition and State Government Size: Do Tighter Elections Produce Looser Budgets?

By D. Rogers, J. Rogers. 2000

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The effects of party competition on budget outcomes: Empirical evidence from local governments in Spain (2006, background): “petition found in Rogers and Rogers (2000) , Besley and Case (2003) point out that “there”
Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities-super-* (2009, background): “At the state level, Besley and Case’s (2003) review of the literature notes several other studies that find a material impact of political partisanship on fiscal outcomes (e.g., Grogan (1994), Besley and Case (1995), Knight (2000), and Rogers and Rogers (2000)).”
Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, unknown): “…Democratic governments spent more—both overall and on individual budget categories (Alt and Lowry 1994; Gilligan and Matsusaka 1995; Dilger 1998; Rogers and Rogers 2000; Caplan 2001; Kousser 2002; Besley and Case 2003; Primo 2006; Chang et al. 2009)—raised tax rates on manifold individual…”