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Do alternative measures of government result in alternative explanations for government size?

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Real government size, automatic feedback rules and the measured effectiveness of fiscal policy

Ferris, John Stephen - In: Applied economics 30 (1998) 3, pp. 365-373

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of the public sector

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Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government

Ferris, John Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...