The voter - bureaucrat is locked into a situation of a conflict of interests: as a conscientious citizen, he or she should support optimal expenditure levels for providing certain public goods, but as a person whose wellbeing and career depend on the volume of expenditures for providing public...

Surges and cuts are explained here by some of the political factors affecting governments' abilities to balance the budget broadly discussed in the literature. We focus on territorial separatism, minority government, grand coalition, single-party government, and the ruling party's ideology....

The link between an introduction of the universal suffrage and the growth of government spending has been established in some literature (Meltzer, Richard, 1981, Aidt et al., 2006, Funk and Guthmann, 2006). In this article we try to identify a more detailed mechanism behind that link. So, we...

The state spending structure – correlation on pure and mixed public goods reflects the making of fundamental choices about state functions. Are pure public good "defense" normal quality provision compatible in Long Run with heavy spending on social sector (i.e. compatible with mixed public...

Russian Abstract: Исторические данные по американской помощи Израилю хорошо иллюстрируют механизмы работы групп специальных интересов и стимулы политиков в Израиле....

Decreasing share of Defence in total Government expenditures reflects fundamental choices about state functions. The main hypotheses of the research is: decreasing priority of military spending could cause lower quality of Defence.The case study shows, how “punishment for military success”...

Historical data on US aid to Israel illustrates incentives of political leaders and special interests, first and foremost in Israel. As on the early stages of Alliance Israel military capabilities could provide valuable services to USA, undermining USSR influence in the Middle East, the current...

Russian Abstract: Анализ литературы и примеров санкций в исторической ретроспективе показывает, что санкции не являются в общем случае заменой военному противостоянию...

Russian Abstract: Государство – "ночной сторож" в эпоху классического либерального капитализма демонстрировало способность выигрывать войны, сдерживать преступность...