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dc.contributor.authorBOJAR, Abel
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-12T09:47:58Z
dc.date.available2020-03-12T09:47:58Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationPolitical research exchange (PRX) : an ECPR journal, 2019, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-21en
dc.identifier.issn2474-736X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/66507
dc.descriptionPublished online: 29 Jul 2019en
dc.description.abstractThe determinants of public spending composition have been studied from three broad perspectives in the scholarly literature: functional economic pressures, institutional constraints and party-political determinants. This article engages with the third perspective by placing intra-governmental dynamics in the centre of the analysis. Building on the portfolio allocation approach in the coalition formation literature and the common pool perspective in public budgeting, I theorize that spending ministers with party-political backing from the prime minister or the finance minister are in a privileged position to obtain extra funding for their policy jurisdictions compared to their colleagues without such support or without any partisan affiliation (non-partisan ministers). Via a system of equations on six spending categories using seemingly unrelated regressions as well as Prais–Winsten panel regressions on a sample of 32 parliamentary democracies over two decades, I offer mixed evidence for the impact of party-political alignment. While the relative share of four of the six budget categories systematically increases under the party-political alignment of the prime minister, the impact of finance minister alignment is only significant for the economic budget.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.ispartofPolitical research exchange (PRX)en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleWith a little help from my friends : ministerial alignment and public spending composition in parliamentary democraciesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/2474736X.2019.1632674
dc.identifier.volume1en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.endpage21en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.rights.licenseThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited


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