Partisan politics: The empirical evidence from OECD panel studies

Journal of Comparative Economics - Tập 45 - Trang 712-750 - 2017
Niklas Potrafke1
1Department of Economics, University of Munich, and ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy, ifo Institute, Poschingerstr.5, D-81679, Munich, Germany

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