期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：This paper examines how policy affects social expenditures. Analyzing an OECD
panel from 1980 to 2003, five political variables are tested: Election- and
pre-election years, the ideological party composition of the governments, the
number of coalition partners and the fact, if the ruling government has a
majority in parliament or not (minority government). I find that neither of
these variables have an impact on social expenditures using different model
set-ups. The influence of national governments seems to be limited by the
globalization, which indeed impairs social expenditures.
