The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginning of the fiscal … year, planning as well as current spending are jeopardized and government shutdown may result. This paper develops a … rather than positive; and when there is divided government. We test the hypotheses of the model using a unique data set of …

reelect a non-reforming government during a recession. The empirical implication of this voter commitment mechanism is that …

provided the social benefit. In the second, all workers receive it through government provision. In the third, some workers …

remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in political economy. Here we develop a …

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an … economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a … possible explanation of this differential effect, we explore whether perceived government legitimacy (measured by satisfaction …