Fiscal Policy, Legislature Size, and Political Parties: Evidence from State and Local Governments in the First Half of the 20th Century

By Thomas W. Gilligan, John G. Matsusaka. National tax journal, 2001

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Does the Size of the Legislature Affect the Size of Government? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments (2012, unknown): “Recent empirical research (e.g. Baqir 2001, Bradbury and Crain 2001, Bradbury and Stephenson 2003, and Gilligan and Matsusaka 1995, 2001) has found a positive relationship between the size of the legislature and the size of government.1 While these findings have been interpreted as providing strong…”
Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis (2007, background): “Congressional representation has been linked to the distribution of government-controlled economic benefits (Matsusaka, 1995; Gilligan and Matsusaka, 1995, 2000; Levitt and Poterba, 1999).”
Merged municipalities, higher debt: on free-riding and the common pool problem in politics (2010, unknown): “Most such studies support the law of 1/n, e.g., Gilligan and Matsusaka (1995, 2001), Bradbury and Crain (2001), Baqir (2002), and Bradbury and Stephenson (2003).”
Districting and Government Overspending (2001, unknown): “For state-level studies, see Alt and Lowry (1994), Poterba (1994), Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1995), Gilligan and Matsusaka (1995, 2001), and Bohn and Inman (1996), among others.”