Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2006
According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization (compensation hypothesis). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze whether … globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we examine the …