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 …

designs, the measurement of government ideology and why the empirical studies do not and cannot derive causal effects … politics have not disappeared since the 1990s, but have certainly become less pronounced. In particular, government ideology …