Political Factors of the Cuts and Surges in Government Spending: The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries
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Keywords
Separatism; political competition; budget deficit; universal suffrage; window of opportunity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2016-02-23 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2016-02-23 (Transition Economics)
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