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

By Niklas Potrafke. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Georgios Efthyvoulou
2. I. Cadoret
3. F. Padovano
4. Antonio Navas
5. V. Bove
6. Niklas Potrafke
7. Eric Dubois
8. Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Georgios Efthyvoulou
2. Antonio Navas
3. V. Bove
4. Niklas Potrafke
5. I. Cadoret
6. F. Padovano
7. Eric Dubois

Citations in the corpus

• Political Cycles in Public Expenditure: Butter vs Guns (2017, methodology): “The partisan variable ‘Ideology’it is the Potrafke (2009)’s government ideology index, which places the cabinet on a left-right scale with values between 1 and 5. Specifically, it takes the following values: 1 if the share of governing right-wing parties in terms of the seats in the cabinet and in p”
• Does government ideology influence budget composition? Empirical evidence from OECD countries (2010, methodology): “I employ the ideology index by Potrafke (2009a), which is based on the index of governments’ ideological positions by Budge et al. (1993) and updated by Woldendorp et al. (1998, 2000).”
• Partisan Politics: The Empirical Evidence from OECD Panel Studies (2017, unknown): “Government ideology is measured by my index (Potrafke 2009a) and an indicator that uses the party family coding by Beck et al. 44 (2001) weighted by the seats of the governing parties in parliament.”
• Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures (2011, background): “One key advantage of having a long-term data set is that we can also assess the role of globalization and institutional constraints in determining the size of PBCs, since a higher level of these two features may reduce governments’ ability to manipulate fiscal policy prior to elections (see Potrafk”
• The political drivers of renewable energies policies (2016, background): “Potrafke (2010) investigates the hypothesis (among others) that market oriented and right wing governments have been more active at deregulating product markets, among them, the market for energy.”
• Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, unknown): “Commentators believed that globalization restricted partisan politics in industrialized countries, but there is hardly any evidence for that view (Potrafke 2009).”
• Does government ideology influence deregulation of product markets? Empirical evidence from OECD countries (2010, methodology): “This finding is in line with Potrafke (2009c), who shows that government ideology has influenced political alignment with the US in voting in the UN General Assembly.”