Does Right or Left Matter? Cabinets, Credibility and Fiscal Adjustments

By José Tavares. 2004

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Partisan Politics: The Empirical Evidence from OECD Panel Studies (2017, unknown): “authors use several government ideology indicators (Budge et al. 1993 and Woldendorp et al. 1998; Tavares 2004; Castles and Mair 1984 and Cusack 1997).”
Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000 (2011, unknown): “Left-wing parties are often associated with more redistribution and a larger government (for example, Tavares, 2004).”
Institutional Performance and Social Capital: An Application to the Local Government Level (2005, background): “Finally, it is often argued that left-wing politicians are more in favour of government intervention, while those of right-wing orthodoxy more fiercely support the workings of the market (see Hibbs, 1977; Tavares, 2004 ).”
Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries (2008, unknown): “coalition Dummy variable taking the value 1 Tavares (2004) Mean 0.56 if a coalition cabinet, which includes Min, Max 0, 1 ministers from two or more parties, Obs 84 is in power”
How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries (2008, background): “However, Tavares (2004) shows that revenue based consolidations are m e”
Does government ideology influence budget composition? Empirical evidence from OECD countries (2010, background): “For empirical evaluations of the partisan theories see, e.g., Alesina et al. (1997), Sakamoto (2008), Heckelman (2002), Tavares (2004), Bjørnskov (2008a), Potrafke (2011b).4 In addition to determining the size of the budget, parties also determine the allocation of specific government spending with…”
Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: evidence from OECD countries (2013, methodology): “…Number of Spending Ministers Mierau et al. (2007) Coalition government Dummy variable taking the value 1 if a coalition cabinet is in power Tavares (2004) Electoral cycle Dummy variable taking the value 1 when elections take place at that year and 0 otherwise Tavares (2004) Preferences…”
Do political variables affect fiscal policy adjustment decisions? New empirical evidence (2007, background): “For instance, Mulas-Granados (2003, p. 15) finds that in the nineties “the ideology of the party in government has become the most powerful predictor of fiscal policies and strategies of adjustment.” Similarly, for a panel of large fiscal adjustments in OECD countries during the last 40 years, Tava”