Political parties, institutions, and the dynamics of social expenditure in times of austerity

By Bernhard Kittel, Herbert Obinger. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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Political Cycles in Public Expenditure: Butter vs Guns (2017, background): “Other studies relate the weakening of partisan influences over the past three decades to an increased necessity of austerity ( Kittel and Obinger, 2003 ), the process of European integration ( von Hagen, 2006; Efthyvoulou, 2011 ), or a general institutional change that took place in the 1990s (…”
Explaining convergence of OECD welfare states: a conditional approach (2011, background): “Starting in the late 1990s, there have been a few studies testing for beta-convergence (Alonso et al., 1998; Alsasua et al., 2007; Attia and Berenger, 2007; Caminada et al., 2010; Castles, 2001; Kittel and Obinger, 2003; Sanz and Velázquez, 2006; Starke et al., 2008; Wolf, 2002).”
From myth to reality: Globalisation and public spending in OECD countries revisited (2009, unknown): “…openness on spending.3 What is more, Garrett and others emphasise the continued importance of partisan politics in a globalised economy, while others (Kittel & Obinger 2003; Cusack 1997) have found a decreasing impact of partisan forces on spending outcomes that could be related to forces of…”
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment: Blame avoidance or credit claiming in the era of permanent austerity? (2011, background): “Providing empirical support for this thesis are studies based on expenditure data that reveal reduced partisan differences (Huber & Stephens 2001; Kittel & Obinger 2003).”
Social democrats and the new partisan politics of public investment in education (2009, unknown): “…that, in an era of retrenchment and progressing internationalization, partisan effects have lost their explanatory power with regard to short-term changes and that they remain important mostly with regard to explaining historical, cross-national differences (Castles 1998; Kittel and Obinger 2003).”
Did globalization restrict partisan politics? An empirical evaluation of social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries (2009, methodology): “The evidence is somewhat ambiguous and partisan effects are shown to have declined in the beginning of the 1990s (e.g. Iversen 2001; Kittel and Obinger 2003 ).”
Taking ‘Galton's Problem’ Seriously (2006, background): “Ui > Uj ) to enact welfare-state reforms (Kittel and Obinger, 2003), precisely because of a decline in effectiveness.”
Globalization and the welfare state: a retrospective (2004, unknown): “Does it eliminate policy differences between left and right governments (Kittel and Obinger 2003) or strengthen them (Garrett 1998b)?”
Determinants of public education spending in 21 OECD democracies, 1980–2001 (2007, background): “…of path dependence (Pierson 2001, 2004), it is not surprising that the current partisan composition of the government loses much of its explanatory power (Kittel and Obinger 2003), for which economic internationalization might not be the sole or even most important reason (Iversen and Cusack 2000).”
Inequality, Public Opinion and Redistribution (2007, background): “…researchers studying social policy generosity (or ‘welfare state effort’) are government transfers as a share of GDP and social policy expenditures as a share of GDP (Hicks, 1999; Iversen and Cusack, 2000; Huber and Stephens, 2001; Kittel and Obinger, 2003; Castles, 2004; Brooks and Manza, 2006).”
Partisan Politics: The Empirical Evidence from OECD Panel Studies (2017, unknown): “The results for leftwing governments depend on the specification – statistically significant with both negative and positive signs.10 Kittel and Obinger (2003) use the growth rate in social expenditure (as a share of GDP) as the dependent variable.”
Labour market- versus life course-related social policies: understanding cross-programme differences (2012, background): “…at either developments in unemployment, sick-day and work accident replacement rates (Allan and Scruggs 2004; Esping-Andersen 1990; Hicks 1999; Korpi 2006; Korpi and Palme 1998, 2003), or aggregated spending categories (Garrett 1998; Iversen 2005; Kittel and Obinger 2003; Kwon and Pontusson 2010).”
Does government ideology influence budget composition? Empirical evidence from OECD countries (2010, background): “Empirical evidence detects higher social expenditures under leftist than rightwing governments till the end of the “cold war” in 1990, whereas partisan effects disappeared in the 1990s (e.g., Kittel and Obinger 2003; Potrafke 2009a; Congleton and Bose 2010).”
Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar? (2008, background): “In analogy to neo-classical growth theory, it can be argued that mature welfare states have converged towards a steady state (Iversen and Cusack 2000; Kittel and Obinger 2003; Castles 2004), with remaining differences determined by past national power constellations and distinct historical paths.”