caa a22 4500 38810709X CHVBK 20180307125342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010490 doi S0008423900010490 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010490 Electoral and Partisan Cycles in the Canadian Provinces [Elektronische Daten] This study tests explanations of the growth of Canadian provincial governments that draw from the political budget cycle approach. The approach assumes that governments jointly respond to electoral and partisan goals. When the next election is not expected soon, the government uses its discretionary power to pursue its ideological target. When the next election is near, politicians in government, fearing electoral defeat, deviate from their normal behaviour and engage in a re-election effort by undertaking an expansionary policy. This study suggests that provincial governments behave in the opportunistic fashion described by the model. Moreover, there is no sign that this opportunistic behaviour has been affected by government cutbacks in the 1990s. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1999 Petry François Université Laval Imbeau Louis M. Université Laval Crête Jean Université Laval Clavet Michel Université Laval Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 273-292 0008-4239 32:2<273 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Petry François Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Imbeau Louis M. Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crête Jean Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clavet Michel Université Laval NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 273-292 0008-4239 32:2<273 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge