caa a22 4500 475840380 CHVBK 20180406123900.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005122127801 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005122127801 Political Competition and State Government Size: Do Tighter Elections Produce Looser Budgets? [Elektronische Daten] [Diane Rogers, John Rogers] We test implications of politicalcompetition theory concerning government size, usingdata from U.S. states. We find that greaterpolitical competition in the race for governor actsas a check against bigger government. Evidence onthe effectiveness of legal limits on expendituresand/or revenues growth is mixed. The DemocraticParty is associated with bigger government, but onlywhen party representation in both the governor'shouse and the legislature is strong. The flypapereffect of grants is found to be strong. Our resultshave implications for models of fiscal illusion. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Rogers Diane Income and Benefits Policy Center, The Urban Institute, 2100 M St. NW, 20037, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. aut Rogers John International Finance Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Mail Stop 22, 20551, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/1-2(2000-10-01), 1-21 0048-5829 105:1-2<1 2000 105 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005122127801 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005122127801 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rogers Diane Income and Benefits Policy Center, The Urban Institute, 2100 M St. NW, 20037, Washington, D.C., U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rogers John International Finance Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Mail Stop 22, 20551, Washington, D.C., U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/1-2(2000-10-01), 1-21 0048-5829 105:1-2<1 2000 105 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer