We investigate empirically how party ideology influences size and scope of government as measured by the size of … differences in Democratic and Republican Party ideology. We distinguish between three types of divided government: overall divided … deregulating labor markets. We find that ideology-induced policies were counteracted under overall divided government and proposal …

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

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 …

context. In this context, existing literature so far fails to consider the potential indirect channel via political ideology … income mobility and political ideology, such that the POUM-effect is allowed to vary with political beliefs. We find a robust …

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