TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Beckmann, Joscha
A1  - Schweickert, Rainer
A1  - Ahlborn, Markus
A1  - Melnykovska, Inna
T1  - Drivers of Government Activity in European Countries: Do Partisan Politics Still Divide East and West?
JF  - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
N2  - Abstract
This article takes a novel look at the relationship between government activity, partisan preferences and varieties of capitalism. Evidence from panel regressions for 25 EU countries from 1990 to 2014 suggests that there are major divides among European countries in terms of the drivers of government activity, that is, government spending and government regulation. The European divide appears to be even more pronounced between liberal and coordinated economic systems than between the classical geographical divide of east and west, which is typically used in most contributions. While both divides apply to the determinants of government activity in general, a reversal of the classical partisan effect for the east is to be found only in specific cases and, is most likely in government spending in liberal eastern countries.
KW  - -
KW  - government activity
KW  - partisan preferences
KW  - varieties of capitalism
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-40577
SN  - 0021-9886
SS  - 0021-9886
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13025
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13025
VL  - 58
IS  - 5
SP  - 1235
EP  - 1251
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken, New Jersey
ER  -