期刊名称：Discussion Papers in Economics / Department of Economics, Royal Holloway
出版年度：2004
卷号：2004
出版社：University of London
摘要：In this paper we study the relationship between legislature size with respect to general government and welfare
spending. According to the theory, legislature size has an indefinite effect on government spending because
logrolling and transaction costs have canceling effects. Bicameralism is expected to have a negative effect
because of the increased transaction cost of finding a viable majority in two houses with different
constituencies. We use a cross-section of 75 countries over the period 1990-1998 controlling for some
institutional features that differ among countries. We find that both legislature size and bicameralism do not
have a significant effect on the two types of spending.
