Using time-series and time-series cross-section data from the 10 Canadian provinces, the authors ... more Using time-series and time-series cross-section data from the 10 Canadian provinces, the authors test several competing explanations of government growth. Multivariate analyses reveal that the results are sensitive to how government size is measured. The authors find strong empirical support for the intergovernmental grants, the bureau voting, and the electoral budget cycle explanations irrespective of the measure of government size
... Thelen and Sven Steinmo, "His-torical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,&... more ... Thelen and Sven Steinmo, "His-torical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics," in Sven Steinmo, Kathleen The-len and Frank Longstreth, eds ... the United States in a Changing World (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997), 267-309; Joan Price Boase, "Health Care ...
We were happy enough with the outcome of this project to publish this collection of essays. Each ... more We were happy enough with the outcome of this project to publish this collection of essays. Each contribution presented here addressed a specific issue, most often in a specific country over a specific period of time; and each one, in its own right, yielded specific conclusions which preclude the possibility of a general conclusion. Yet, this fruitful dispersion also yielded
... a revision of a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Cana-dian Political ... in a con... more ... a revision of a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Cana-dian Political ... in a context of rational ignorance, asymmetric information between voters and pol-icy makers ... See, among others, Alberto Alesina, Gerald Cohen and Nouriel Roubini, "Mac-roeconomic Policy and ...
In this conclusion, we first provide a summary of the main theoretical and empirical conclusions ... more In this conclusion, we first provide a summary of the main theoretical and empirical conclusions reached by the contributors to this volume. Then, we argue that the empirical study of dissonance in policy processes must not only investigate whether policy makers do what they say but also whether what they say corresponds to what the public wants. In our concluding
Using time-series and time-series cross-section data from the 10 Canadian provinces, the authors ... more Using time-series and time-series cross-section data from the 10 Canadian provinces, the authors test several competing explanations of government growth. Multivariate analyses reveal that the results are sensitive to how government size is measured. The authors find strong empirical support for the intergovernmental grants, the bureau voting, and the electoral budget cycle explanations irrespective of the measure of government size
... Thelen and Sven Steinmo, "His-torical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,&... more ... Thelen and Sven Steinmo, "His-torical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics," in Sven Steinmo, Kathleen The-len and Frank Longstreth, eds ... the United States in a Changing World (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997), 267-309; Joan Price Boase, "Health Care ...
We were happy enough with the outcome of this project to publish this collection of essays. Each ... more We were happy enough with the outcome of this project to publish this collection of essays. Each contribution presented here addressed a specific issue, most often in a specific country over a specific period of time; and each one, in its own right, yielded specific conclusions which preclude the possibility of a general conclusion. Yet, this fruitful dispersion also yielded
... a revision of a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Cana-dian Political ... in a con... more ... a revision of a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Cana-dian Political ... in a context of rational ignorance, asymmetric information between voters and pol-icy makers ... See, among others, Alberto Alesina, Gerald Cohen and Nouriel Roubini, "Mac-roeconomic Policy and ...
In this conclusion, we first provide a summary of the main theoretical and empirical conclusions ... more In this conclusion, we first provide a summary of the main theoretical and empirical conclusions reached by the contributors to this volume. Then, we argue that the empirical study of dissonance in policy processes must not only investigate whether policy makers do what they say but also whether what they say corresponds to what the public wants. In our concluding
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