caa a22 4500 477078214 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00114285 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00114285 Government spending cycles: Ideological or opportunistic? [Elektronische Daten] [Hendrik Van Dalen, Otto Swank] This paper examines whether partisan and opportunistic motives affect government expenditure growth in the Netherlands. The time series analysis, covering the period 1953-1993, allows for different types of government spending. In general, spending is inspired by ideological and opportunistic motives: all government expenditure categories show an upward drift during election times and the ‘partisan' motives behind government spending are clearly revealed: left-wing cabinets attach greater importance to social security and health care than right-wing cabinets and right-wing cabinets value expenditure on infrastructure and defense more than left-wing parties. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Van Dalen Hendrik Research Center for Economic Policy (OCFEB), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000, Rotterdam, DR, The Netherlands aut Swank Otto Research Center for Economic Policy (OCFEB), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000, Rotterdam, DR, The Netherlands aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 89/1-2(1996-10-01), 183-200 0048-5829 89:1-2<183 1996 89 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114285 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114285 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Van Dalen Hendrik Research Center for Economic Policy (OCFEB), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000, Rotterdam, DR, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Swank Otto Research Center for Economic Policy (OCFEB), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000, Rotterdam, DR, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 89/1-2(1996-10-01), 183-200 0048-5829 89:1-2<183 1996 89 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer