Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890–2000
Patricia Funk; Christina Gathmann · 2011 · The Economic Journal
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Using new historical data from Swiss cantons, we estimate the effect of direct democracy on government spending. We use fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity and new instruments to address potential endogeneity concerns. We…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02451.x