Presentation topic 1: What influences the size of government?

Suggested readings:

David Cameron, “The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review, 72 (December 1978), pp. 1243-1261.

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Comiskey M, “Electoral Competition And The Growth Of Public Spending In 13 Industrial Democracies, 1950 to 1983,” Comparative Political Studies 26 (3): 350-374 Oct 1993

David Strang; Patricia Mei Yin Chang, “The International Labor Organization and the Welfare State: Institutional Effects on National Welfare Spending, 1960-80,” International Organization, 47 (2): 235-262 Spr 1993

Blais A, Blake D, Dion S, “Do Parties Make A Difference - Parties And The Size Of Government In Liberal Democracies,” American Journal of Political Science 37 (1): 40-62 Feb 1993

Cameron, David, “The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review 72 (December 1978) pp. 1243-61.

Downs, Anthony, “Why the Government’s Budget is Too Small in a Democracy,” World Politics 12 (1960): 541-63.

Ferejohn, John and Keith Krehbiel, “The Budget Process and the Size of the Budget,” American Journal of Political Science 31, 1987, pp. 296-320.

Fiorina, Morris and Roger Knoll, “Voters, Legislators and Bureaucracy: Institutional Design in the Public Sector” The American Economic Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (May, 1978), pp. 256-260.

Morris P. Fiorina and Roger G. Noll “Voters, bureaucrats and legislators : A rational choice perspective on the growth of bureaucracy,” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 1978.

Franzese, Robert J., Jr, Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002), chapter 2: 62-125.

Miller, Gary and Terry Moe, “Bureaucrats, Legislators, and the Size of the Government,” American Journal of Political Science 1983, 293-308.

Meltzer, Allan and Scott Richard, “A Rational Theory of the Size of Government,” Journal of Political Economy, 1981.

Weingast, Barry, Kenneth Shepsle, and C. Johnson, “The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics,” Journal of Political Economy, 1981: 642-64.

Alt, James and Alex Chrystal, Political Economics, (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983. ), chapters 6, 8-10 (pp. 126-48, 175-238). (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES HB73 .A42 1983)

Baron, David, “Majoritarian Incentives, Pork Barrel Programs, and Procedural Control,” American Journal of Political Science 35, 1991: 57-90.