This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does … so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the … robustness of the relationship between ideology and growth and the specific channels through which political ideology affects …

We provide a test of the impact of voters' political ideology on economic growth and of the role of preferences for … move of voters' ideology to the right increases economic growth over total observation period. However, the growth effect … of ideology is mediated by voters' preferences for government size only during the post-World War II period. For reverse …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of the "ideology" of political parties in shaping the evolution of the …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …