whether government ideology predicts the levels and increases in the real estate transfer tax rates; and show that leftwing …

This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies …, measurement of government ideology and empirical strategies to identify causal effects. Many studies conclude that parties do …, but these studies using data for the national level do not derive causal effects. Ideology-induced policies are prevalent …

. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …

We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …

natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that …

power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in the …

We test the theory of expressive voting in relation to political ideology in a laboratory experiment. After deriving …