Legislative organization and government spending: cross-country evidence

By John Charles Bradbury, William K. Crain. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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• 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).”
• 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…”
• Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from the US Congress* (2008, result): “Baqir (2002) finds a positive relationship between the size of city councils and public spending, and Gilligan and Matsusaka (1995) and Bradbury and Crain (2001) find similar results for legislatures in US states.”